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My head immediately jumps to YikYak but I know there were some others in this domain 10 years ago. I can't think of many recently though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak
Too many syllables in the name, and too much functionality. I refer you to Yo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
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I dunno, for all the perceived (and real) failures, the last few generations of these experiments have spawned some of the highest earning, and arguably transformative, companies in history.
Which ones?
E2E encrypted messaging that is accessible to people and works using data has been transformative.
Twitter has changed the landscape of communication.
Streaming music and video services have changed the way people consume media and shaped the way it’s created and broadcast.
Like a lot. Didn't YC even fund that startup that wanted to turn middle class suburban homeowners into slumlords by building rental poverty shacks in their back yards?
I don’t know what startup you are mocking, but this is a very bad faith way to characterize building ADUs cheaply. You don’t know the first thing about housing, besides making drama about it.
This isn’t just a poorly made joke it’s also not even making fun of the right thing. The vast majority of investment is inside of public firms into themselves for ai. VCs have actually broadly been sidelines as they both lack the capital to make major moves nor see small enough direct application to invest. There are plenty of jokes to be made about AI, this is a dumb one.
Select AI as focus area, choose your stage of choice, "Active."
Then look here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S24&batch=W24&ta...
Combine that with JumpCrisscross's comment, and your take seems passing strange.
The important thing to understand here is that you shouldn't write on a latex balloon with a Sharpie. It works well for a while, but when the balloon inevitably pops or deflates, the Sharpie ink will re-liquify and get all over the place. Then you will learn the meaning of the phrase "indelible on porous surfaces".
This sounds fun. Thanks.
For investors in the art market, they will invest in some artists and not others, irrespective of how appealing the art is, as provenance is the signal for ROI.
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> startup world is just a massive pump and dump scheme, and so it moves from field to field finding the next hotness But we retain the solutions that work. A slime mold tries a bunch of useless paths in a maze before it finds the right one. Then it trims and reinforces. Most start-ups failing isn't a sure sign of wasted work.
What startups have provided lasting real solutions and value, not just capitalistic, in say the last decade?
It's not just AI startups. It's almost all of them. The startup world is just a massive pump and dump scheme, and so it moves from field to field finding the next hotness. Self-driving cars, VR, EVs, AI, and so on. People soon realize that you can't just take a bunch of hipster tech employees and suddenly create non-solutions that need to have problems created for them to even be solutions, much less choosing extreme…
Throw as many unrelated businesses that you can buy for pennies on the dollar into a basket. Claim it is now diversified. Decrease expenses by allowing all of your good employees to run for the hills screaming while not replacing them. Post one year of record profits by sacrificing quality in the name of quantity. Re-capitalize in order to generate a massive return. And then rinse and repeat on your next victims, I mean ventures.
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> startup world is just a massive pump and dump scheme, and so it moves from field to field finding the next hotness But we retain the solutions that work. A slime mold tries a bunch of useless paths in a maze before it finds the right one. Then it trims and reinforces. Most start-ups failing isn't a sure sign of wasted work.
What startups have provided lasting real solutions and value, not just capitalistic, in say the last decade?
Deel, Rippling, Redwood Materials, Convoy, Airtable, Anduril, Cerebral, Checkr and Cerebras were all founded since 2014. Pick one. We're currently seeing an explosion in creativity around satellites, autonomous vehicles (on the road, indoors and airborne), generative AI and biotechnology.
Go back one more cycle and we have SpaceX, Tesla, Uber & Lyft, Moderna, Zoom, DoorDash and other giants that entered busy fields, survived the winnowing and basically created a new industry.