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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

Cofounder

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete

Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal?

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley

StartUpRoar

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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