... Am I the only one that thinks it looks hideous?
It's a difficult look, but some people like difficult things.
DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
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Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#52For a guy running a "lifestyle" business, he's doing pretty good...
Yeah, if this is what founding a "dipshit company" or a "lifestyle business" earns you, count me in. DHH has a lot of critics, but remarkably few of them drive supercars.
Dipshit company refers to flippables, not this.
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#53Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#54For the inevitable curiosity, apparently these run in [at least] the $350,000 range. It's never cheap to hit 0-60 in 3.7s or less. http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/112_0212_pagani_z...
It's never cheap to hit 0-60 in 3.7s or less. My Kawasaki 650R does 0-60 in about 3.8. I paid less than $10k for it. The ZX-6R can do it in about 3.1s. A Ducati 1098 will do it under 3s.
ok, but you're comparing the acceleration time of a 2700lb car to that of a 400lb bike. a $50k ariel atom or caterham r500 can do 0-60 in under 3 seconds but each only weighs about 1100lbs.
nobody is buying a pagani zonda to drag race between stoplights.
Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#55you know maybe I need to take a second look at this whole SaaS business model, hmmmmm..... ;)
Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#56DHH is that rich?
The article also has this.. Heinemeier Hansson is based in Chicago, but since the Zonda was never homologated to U.S. specifications, reports indicate that the owner bought a vacation home in Italy just so he could drive the thing. Now that's dedication.
Probably won't be coming to the US (though wouldn't it be fine on a track?):
"Heinemeier Hansson is based in Chicago, but since the Zonda was never homologated to U.S. specifications, reports indicate that the owner bought a vacation home in Italy just so he could drive the thing. Now that's dedication."
Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#57After listening to DHH speak at Startup School a few years ago I came to the conclusion that for an entrepreneur a "lifestyle business" is a much more probable path to getting rich than the grow-fast-and-flip approach demanded by VCs and angel investors. In retrospect, it seems pretty obvious, but previously I had really only been exposed to entrepreneurship through PG's blog. I had never heard of 37 Signals before.…
Investors want the companies they fund to grow fast, but they don't want to "flip" them. They'd much prefer that they grew into large, independent companies, like Google and Facebook. When companies get sold at earlier stages, it's more often because the founders wanted to than the investors.
I would never claim that starting a startup (= a company designed to grow very fast) was the only way to get rich. Anyone can see that's not how most people get rich. Most people who get rich from starting companies do it by patiently building slow growing service or niche product businesses.
A startup is the extreme end of the spectrum. It's not for everyone. It's not for 99% of people probably. But if you're Steve Jobs, or Larry Page, or Mark Zuckerberg, it turns out that you can do better than the guys patiently building service or niche product businesses.
Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#58Re: DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH
#59For a guy running a "lifestyle" business, he's doing pretty good...
Yeah, if this is what founding a "dipshit company" or a "lifestyle business" earns you, count me in. DHH has a lot of critics, but remarkably few of them drive supercars.
drives is a supercar is not a measure of being right
as the post mentioned, a lot of despots and autocrats have supercars, and their opponents are peasants. who is right?
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#60... Am I the only one that thinks it looks hideous?
It's a bit flashy. I quite like the photo with the overhead view. // Part of me wonders if this is just to go in his anti-VC speeches.. "See - we made a "lifestyle" business and now I drive a custom supercar"
I imagine that as a late-night infomercial