The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
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#2So pretty much a long winded advertisement for his company.
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#3"Fast-forward 11 years and Tew is still doing things differently than most [...]. Today, he lives in San Francisco, [...] and is founder and CEO of start-up Calm, which offers a mobile app"
At least on HN this wouldn't be seen different at all.
Wikipedia retells the story of the million dollar homepage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
#4So pretty much a long winded advertisement for his company.
For me the key take-away is that he couldn't recreate his success later.
"First, he tried Pixelotto, a spinoff of the Million Dollar Homepage selling advertising space, then PopJam, a social network for sharing funny content, and One Million People, similar to his first success, just with photos instead of advertisements. None succeeded the way he hoped."
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#5So pretty much a long winded advertisement for his company.
For me the key take-away is that he couldn't recreate his success later. "First, he tried Pixelotto, a spinoff of the Million Dollar Homepage selling advertising space, then PopJam, a social network for sharing funny content, and One Million People, similar to his first success, just with photos instead of advertisements. None succeeded the way he hoped."
If you win the lottery and think it was because of something you did, well...
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me the key take-away is that he couldn't recreate his success later. "First, he tried Pixelotto, a spinoff of the Million Dollar Homepage selling advertising space, then PopJam, a social network for sharing funny content, and One Million People, similar to his first success, just with photos instead of advertisements. None succeeded the way he hoped."
If you win the lottery and think it was because of something you did, well...
Haha, this reminds me of Taleb's The Black Swan.
Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
#7Wonder how many of the links on this page are still active.
Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
#8Wonder how many of the links on this page are still active.
At least one is still going strong (I worked there at the time they bought in).
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#9I have been using Headspace and Calm.com. While the services are valuable, I have hard time justifying buying a subscription with a monthly cost for something that is basically some guided meditation mp3.
Compare buying a meditation book with a few guided meditation track for 20$, or subscribing to an app with a recurring cost of 70$/year, I don't really see the added value.
Can someone shed light on what I am missing ?
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#10I remember reading the blog and thought it was cool how the story progressed.