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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. But it is clearly not warranted in all cases. But there’s no doubt we took the edge off.

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Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

To see this in action, consider the DALL-E images that go viral on Reddit and Twitter. So while DALL-E may seem like a novelty or niche product for technophiles at this stage in the game, ignoring it now is like ignoring blogging in the late 1990s, or social media circa 2004, or mobile in 2007.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As much as I love Linux (and would love to make it my primary OS across all of my development systems), it simply lacks the market share necessary to warrant the investment of my efforts. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. March 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm. March 27, 2011 at 9:56 pm.

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