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The reason I find this company so interesting is it doesn’t seem like a venture-backable business at first glance. In order to get $100M in revenue, they would have to have $1.0B in gross subscription volume. When they went through YC, they had an average revenue / subscriber of $70. If that stays the same, Substack will need about 14.3M paid subsc... See more
Adam Keesling • Explaining a16z's Investment in Substack
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Well before Netflix, I believed that the value of creative work should not be measured by time. This is a relic of an industrial age when employees did tasks that are now done by machines.
Reed Hastings • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Page rarely visited YouTube HQ—one person there while he was CEO remembered two trips—but during his rare appearances Page stuck to one edict: make videos load faster. Staff recalled Page stopping meetings to complain about YouTube’s buffering speed, which he once called, to YouTube’s embarrassment, “the biggest problem Google-wide.”
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This Entrepreneur Gave Away His $22 Million Dollar Fortune - Derek Sivers on Burning the Ships
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A key element of Hulu Plus is that we are able to compensate content owners more per-user per-month than anyone else for the same body of content. We are able to do this because of the subscription fee, our unusually effective and market-leading advertising service, and our
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