When you click through to send the email, they jack up the price to $100. Feels scummy to me...
Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
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Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
#102Here is how $20 advice from Ben looks like http://take.ms/UTHnJ
It's $100 now :-0
Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
#103When you click through to send the email, they jack up the price to $100. Feels scummy to me...
It now says $100 on the front page. I think the price has recently been changed.
Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
#104Ben Horowitz invested tens of millions into this company [0]. This looks like a pivot away from all the bitcoin hardware and using Ben's relative celebrity status to give it some attention.
Half this thread is about what Ben needs the money for or whether he ought to be donating more to charity, but that's not what this is about. This is just PR for a recent pivot of one of Ben's companies.
All that said, I like the concept.
[0] https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/18/what-is-21-co-really-doing...
Almost offtopic: How do people do this? (and by "this" i mean [0]) Raise millions and millions from established VCs with entirely unproven ideas, no traction, no nothing? Every once in a while we hit an article about a company like that and meanwhile us normal founders are struggling to close a very modest seed round. Is it just a network thing?
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#105Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
#106So has anyone taken up the offer? If so do you mind sharing what you asked and what the response was?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bill Gates' book The Road Ahead had the idea of a paywall to fight spam, someone who really wants to get your attention could attach a $20 "stamp" to their mail, and if it's a really important mail, say from a long-lost family member, you'd refund them. If it's just spam, you can keep the money.
I'm still waiting for someone to build an email system where only the header is sent along. The body of the message must be retrieved from the original server using a unique key included in the header. This would decrease spoofing of IPs and make black listing more accurate. Please someone steal this idea...
Everything old is new again: https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still waiting for someone to build an email system where only the header is sent along. The body of the message must be retrieved from the original server using a unique key included in the header. This would decrease spoofing of IPs and make black listing more accurate. Please someone steal this idea...
Everything old is new again: https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
Ha! That's great. Did anyone build it?
Re: Contact Ben Horowitz for $20
#109I just messaged Kim Kardashian on this thing haha. She jumped on it fast https://21.co/kimkardashian/
21 Engineer here. We have some code to autodetect fake pages like this and we auto-killed the page. Nice try though!
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#110It may could encourage people to contact him more by giving them a form of permission: > To come to our surprising conclusion, Uri ran an experiment: Out of 10 daycare centers across Haifa, they randomly chose six and introduced a small fine for parents who showed up more than 10 minutes late in each of them. In day cares where the fine was introduced, parents immediately started showing up late, with tardiness level…
We've seen this come up a lot recently with Tesla's move to fine drivers who "park" at charging stations. Many see this as actually worsening the problem as people are happier to pay the (relatively small) fine.
If the problem is people leaving their car there for hours, is a $24/hr fine really that small? Yea, it might increase the number of people who leave their car there for 10 extra minutes, but it seems highly likely to address the real problem, which is low turnover at the Superchargers.
Even then, Tesla can very easily just increase the fine (or do something like a steadily increasing fine) to address this concern. They could also charge additional fees to anyone who leaves their car at a supercharger for too long serially (and my guess is that these are the real problem).