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Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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This is a very low-quality post and an even lower-quality thread. Stop to think. Sequoia have the best track record in the industry. Is it likely they're completely fucking stupid? Because that's what follows if these snarky comments have merit. Man am I thankful I have something awesome to do with the rest of my day.

Yeah, I agree with you. This is the kind of thread that makes me worry about HN.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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post #76
post #62

This is a very low-quality post and an even lower-quality thread. Stop to think. Sequoia have the best track record in the industry. Is it likely they're completely fucking stupid? Because that's what follows if these snarky comments have merit. Man am I thankful I have something awesome to do with the rest of my day.

I'm sorry - do you think that people on Wall Street were stupid when they were creating CDS and pumping huge speculation bubble around subprime mortgages? I think that we have enough evidence that smart people make mistakes - actually much bigger and more expensive mistakes then anyone could have expected.

The two cases are different. The guys manufacturing credit default swaps had someone to sell them to. But (unlike in the 90s) there is no one buying lame startups for billions of dollars.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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I'm gonna play devil's advocate here. Don't bet against a world-class hustler who can also build cool shit. And that's Bill Nguyen. Let's remember how Lala came to be. He built a service for swapping physical CDs, which promised to make sure that every album ever recorded made its way onto Bittorrent (since someone could rip and flip an album that had never been encoded for Then, he managed to get Sequoia to give the…

"There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing" Where will the billion dollar come from? Getting paid to take pictures next to McDonalds?

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