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This may be my single biggest pet peeve. I think of this problem more broadly every time I see some new movie is the highest grossing movie of all time. No shit, Sherlock. More people, more screens, more movie theaters, inflation... the record is always going to be broken.

I hate this so much I actually ran the numbers and saw that per capita box office revenues have remained generally stable since the 1980s.



Growth in the installed base of computing and connectivity is not the same thing as simple inflation.

Meeker is illustrating a material change in the environment.


Come on. That's like being bugged about a pizza joint describing itself as "world famous"


Well, I dislike both. And in either case I am going to trust less whoever repeats it uncritically.


I don't hold pizza joints to the same standards as large companies and the media.


Exactly. As a VC isn't it their job to bring out relevant, thought provoking metrics?

Instead, we have this monstrosity of metrics that make no sense.


No. As a vc their job is to raise capital from investors and then invest that capital to make a return.

Data scientists bring out relevant, thought-provoking metrics. They work for the people who work for the people who are the target audience here.


> Data scientists bring out relevant, thought-provoking metrics

With all due respect, I’ve seen more corporate drivel and slide-show sugar out of data scientists than VCs. (Largely as a product of attention span.)




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