jasonwilk

How marginally better was Google than Yahoo when debuted? If one can develop AGI first within X timeline ahead of competitors, that alone could develop a moat for a mass market consumer product even if others get to parity .

We lost a product manager candidate to Meta yesterday so not so sure about any hiring freeze.

That’s the point. Musk doesn’t need to maintain the ad business. Reduce the headcount, get enough subscriptions to break even and take a write off on the deflated value of the business. Just making it a great product, free of ads and better at spam.

While I don’t advocate for anyone losing their job, my partial view on what Elon will do with Twitter once he takes it private is to shut down their ad business and focus on Twitter Blue (or some variation of subscription based product announcements). This will have several benefits.

1. Simplifies the business operation by reducing fixed headcount significantly

2. This will have a hard hit to Twitter revenue but Musk will have the benefit of downgrading the new ad-free business valuation and using the haircut against his future personal Tesla stock sales. Losing the ad business doesn’t actually cost him anything.

3. Product will now be more user friendly than competition, focusing more on product Vs ad tech. Eventually because it doesn’t have ads it could reignite growth to become a dominant social network.

Whether it grows in value or not is irrelevant to Musk and because of this, he seems like the most aligned to improve the product Vs any other financial suitor.

You can easily sign a document on Preview using Mac for free. Click the Show Markup Toolbar in the View or Edit section. Create and save your signature, then click the signature to add it to your PDF. I’m not sure why they don’t make this incredibly transparent on Mac, other than to help others profit.

I once was given ‘wine condoms’ as a gag gift one year. It turns out to be the greatest way to preserve wine. Locks in the gas and blocks oxygen 10x better than the cork. They also last a long time. I highly recommend.

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Detour. What a great app that is so educational and fun. Was sorry to see it get acquired. They are hundreds more cities that could use this.

Patrick, just be careful calling this a bank. Evolve is the bank, you are not the bank. Saving you some headache in the future.

Thanks!

For what it’s worth, I find out about every new tv show and movie almost exclusively from billboards. While tough to measure, they have an affect.

I have always thought this space will turn into the Netflix of food. First you differentiate by having a good array of content (food) but will eventually need to create original content with exclusivity (Uber creating or funding their own restaurants just for delivery) to differentiate.