EvanL

Companies in burgeoning industries at this scale are concerned with longevity, specifically outlasting their competitors. Not short term profits.

They are thinking more along the lines of "how can we make 10 billion dollars per year, for the next 150 years." Think General Electric.

That's why they require huge amounts of money from investors, so they can aggressively grow to a size where other companies can't touch them.

The huge amount of capital is sort of like a moat.

When you're larger, you have something called economy of scale. Which means you have enough resources to do stuff the smaller guys can't do.

When you're larger, you also have something called a data advantage. Which means you know so much more about your customers, you can predict things and make decisions the smaller guys can't.

Someone please create a browser extension that automatically adds every word you "Look Up" to an Anki stack. My vocabulary would be vastly improved if I had this, I always find myself looking up the definition of the same complex words over and over again that are for whatever reason slippery for me to remember.

I think it's a lot of fun and they pulled some interesting data from it. There are far more pressing concerns in the world right now, people have sex sometimes NBD.

Cool technology, applications?

Great product video! Actually quite funny. This technology can be a nice little stop gap before the driverless car revolution.

I own a similar content network, but we have since broke it up into multiple niche properties to avoid having one massive neck to choke like Upworthy.

In the past fb has issued domain wide bans on properties I've owned if we were getting a little too savvy in exploiting their edge rank algo.

This "pass thru" traffic is amongst the least valuable on the internet, believe me, we have tried everything under the sun to monetize visitors, adsense, every ad network, affiliate, etc.

Believe it or not the best thing we've figured out is to use the authority of a massively viral website to help us rank terms in google on the backend. All comes full circle, lol.

Calling it right now. No one just takes down an app that is generating $50k+ day in ad revenue. This might just be a brilliant PR stunt, should drive several million downloads today. No way is the app coming down tomorrow.

I love it, great scrappiness from the local team. As CEO i'd have a good chuckle, and tell them to tone it down a bit.

Generous of the article to refer to Gett as a "rival" and not a clone.

Haha, very cool, great job! Plenty of creative application opportunities!