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How much are you all willing to bid? I'll do it for $10. That's cheaper than any AI on the market.
Sure I'll pay $10. So like Paypal or what?
Thanks for the offer. I have free time today so if you are dying for this synopsis I will do it for free just because I find it so funny that someone wants this
I feel that PG needs to make a concerted effort to use "uhm" less. It negatively affects his ability to eloquently communicate an idea.
As I mentioned elsewhere, the use "umms" is only because he tries to talk off the cuff. This makes his talks much more interesting. Most of the smooth talkers you see on tv and youtube have basically learned what they are going to say. They sound slicker, but eventually what they do say is less interesting because it has been pre-learned and thus pre-filtered. This is a general problem with Television and popular cul…
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Writing software on windows is like using chopsticks with mittens. You can do it, it’s not pretty, and it’s not the use case the mitten sewer had in mind during development. Read the Unix Programming Environment to see the exact opposite mindset for OS design.
What a load of nonsense. C#'s a great language and their dev tool, Visual Studio, is second to none.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
.NET did not appear until much later.
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still doesn't change what happened in the youtube video - just to be clear
PG has written very candidly of being uncomfortable speaking publicly [1]. As an uncomfortable public speaker myself, when I've been in that situation of being introduced at the beginning of a Q&A session, my mind is mostly occupied with mildly anxious thoughts about how I'm going to get through the talk without freezing up or saying something stupid. I'm not paying close attention to what the host is saying. It's wo…
That said, other than that I disagree with you. If someone wants to have their opinions taken seriously they have take other people's opinions seriously as well and can't get angry as soon as people disagree.
Personally I think many of his essays aren't very good, but there just isn't any practical way to discuss them. And frankly I don't think people are really that interested in doing that either.
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Sales is grim work for introverts, you can do it but if it's most of what you are doing then you need to question what the point of it is.
This seems to be the issue with me. I am more like 'laptop' guy who is rather good in researching. I am also keen on observing things. But sales stuffs, cold calling give me chills. How do I overcome it?
They really needed a script to follow to make it more focused, and the questions were... not great. Some good advice though still, especially about truly listening to users and launching asap, probably the single biggest thing that startups have trouble with.
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There are gateways like PayPal (which is why it skyrocketed in the first place). So you send $100 PayPal and he gets $100. He then goes and spend his full money to buy something online without any other fees.
The problem is most people have a bank account in their local currency, so PayPal is in their local currency and takes several bites at the apple before passing the core to the recipient. People doing an hour of work online for a few bucks are likely interested in buying something locally rather than spending $100US on something online.
It's bothering me that Geoff introduced Paul as "the founder" and Paul just kind of went with it. It was a small moment but these sorts of details matter because they can contribute to unintended historical revisionism. A YouTube annotation overlay might be appreciated by the other founders.
Would be better as a podcast or essay, the dialog is dicey, but seeing the body language turns it into a cringefest.