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In other words they’ve shut it down, and are going to use the brand recognition to hawk as much low quality gaming merch as they can.
Which brands do you usually recommend for desktop/laptop related accessories?
In other words they’ve shut it down, and are going to use the brand recognition to hawk as much low quality gaming merch as they can.
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> VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment Can you suggest other saner forms? For example, having experts pick, government pick, or only one single debt instruments all have problems with the kinds of investments VC funds, not to mention that they also have their share of ludicrous and bad investments. Also please suggest how you’d stop VC as is at its core a private investment club…
Im no expert, but thoughts: 1. Large firms investing in early r&d instead of aquisition. 2. Its a symptom of decades of poor economic policy rewarding speculation, to a scale that impacts society by disencentivizing stable investments that benefit humanity. Main lever causing this is through Federal reserve poor policy since 200
It’s also what Xerox and Bell labs were doing in the 70s and what Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc are doing today but it took smaller more nimble players to actually do anything with the research. Case in point: transformers came from Google.
Drop/Massdrop had been on the way out for many years, I don't get the impression that they ever truly recovered from the transition away from the "group buy for anything" model. They were probably just barely kept afloat by the audiophile gear and keyboards.
They ended up having a lot of non-group buy things like extremely esoteric keycaps probably only a couple dozen people on earth are willing to spend money on.
Drop/Massdrop had been on the way out for many years, I don't get the impression that they ever truly recovered from the transition away from the "group buy for anything" model. They were probably just barely kept afloat by the audiophile gear and keyboards.
Agreed. As someone who spent thousands of dollars at early Massdrop, when they switched to 'basically just a store' + their branded products the goods weren't as appealing and I eventually just stopped visiting. And that makes sense if you think about it: if a group buy gets fully funded people obviously want it. They ended up having a lot of non-group buy things like extremely esoteric keycaps probably only a couple…
this is terrible, imho. defeats the purpose of the platform. i'm sad for 6XX series headphones :c
this is terrible, imho. defeats the purpose of the platform. i'm sad for 6XX series headphones :c
Sennheiser is basically dead too. https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/03/sennheiser-officially-d...
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Im no expert, but thoughts: 1. Large firms investing in early r&d instead of aquisition. 2. Its a symptom of decades of poor economic policy rewarding speculation, to a scale that impacts society by disencentivizing stable investments that benefit humanity. Main lever causing this is through Federal reserve poor policy since 200
Large firms investing in early r&d happens regardless. It does not explain how you build new business on an idea you can’t convince large org politics to try. It’s also what Xerox and Bell labs were doing in the 70s and what Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc are doing today but it took smaller more nimble players to actually do anything with the research. Case in point: transformers came from Google.
According to Crunchbase, Massdrop raised ~92 MM through their series C, and then another ~40 MM in debt over the last couple years. There is no way that MassDrop was ever going to justify that kind of capital investment. VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment at this point -- they have no idea what they're doing. It ironically looks a lot like central planning, where the VCs thems…
> VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment Can you suggest other saner forms? For example, having experts pick, government pick, or only one single debt instruments all have problems with the kinds of investments VC funds, not to mention that they also have their share of ludicrous and bad investments. Also please suggest how you’d stop VC as is at its core a private investment club…