It's a joke

Reference: Amazon lawsuit against Pentagon for Azure contract

Reference: Amazon lawsuit against Future Retail

etc

etc

Or Blue Origin trying to patent rockets landing on floating platforms and then suing SpaceX. At least we are soon coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the first successful landing!

https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-partial-win-in-patent-ruli...

so true so true

it is interesting to see all the justifications people are giving for Tesla's completely irrational valuation

Solar Roof/Solar Energy -> Solar City was going bankrupt and had to be bought by Tesla to save Musk's cousins (Rive) and his ownership stake in Solar City

Electric Cars -> Check out what is happening on Europe. People keep saying Tesla is doing very well in China, without understanding that Tesla has a very small share of China and BYD is the largest EV maker in China

Battery Storage -> So something that is a very small share of Tesla revenues will magically one day become a massive business?

It's one thing to say - It will add $50 billion to the company Completely different thing to say it will add half a trillion

Self Driving and Robotaxis - This has been the dream for the last 5 years Tesla said 1 million robotaxis by end of Dec 2020

Where are they?

The combination of messianic leader who claims he is doing it only to save the planet and the human race

combined with Fed printing money like its going out of fashion and investors desperate for returns

Is a very dangerous combination

1) You have to be very careful with embracing limiting beliefs such as this one -> Artisans were different than merchants

There are lots of artists who are very good at sales and marketing

Don't fall for the trap that you have to be a starving artist who dies penniless and then 50 years later people realize how great your work was

In today's day and age if you do superb work it gets recognized pretty quickly

2) Sales & Marketing are skills. The more you practice it the better you will get

3) Helpful to low income people? How do you make money from low income people

Most people who make income from low income people do it by exploiting them

So it is not a good market

4) I don't know what time poor means

5) Paywall works very well if done right

6) donations? Asking for donations from low income people? That doesn't make sense

7) book sales? $1,000 per year

8) I can't understand any of what you are saying as you have not talked about

what your service is

how many people use it

website. If you can't share give some idea

9) how do you know your service is 'best in class'

if it doesn't make money either it isn't best in class or you are a sucker who is giving value to people without charging money

There was an article about this guy who had an 'airline deals' newsletter

With ads for free people No ads for $5 per month subscribers

think about something like that

10) Marketing people to generate traffic?

No, Marketing and Sales has to generate money/profits

Hire people to sell things toe xisting customers and make money from them

Not to add more 'low income and time poor' people who make you no money

very, very true

This: am also suspecting that the level-off will happen one layer higher. I.e. the economic relevance of the current incumbents within the US economy will not drop, but the global relevance of the US will. For a perspective, you can look at the German economy that is dominated by companies founded 100+ years ago.

Because US government is getting in bed with Amazon, Google, Facebook

it is causing a double effect

A) They are letting them keep growing their monopolies in return for surveillance of Americans and non Americans

Which makes them stronger

B) US innovation is slowing down

For Example: Now most of US technology is around showing ads, surveillance, and basically treating people like stupid ATMs

They might be able to make it work for another 10 to 30 years, and then there will be big breakdowns

A good example is what is happening to Amazon in countries like China and India

This is a fascinating comment

In particular -> It occurred to me that in some situations, it might actually be more efficient _not_ to batch. The complexity of attempting to batch at the warehouse must be very high, and take up quite a bit of warehouse space, and slow down dispatch significantly.

excellent comment

agree completely with you

The only LOGICAL reason to go from a format that works to such a terrible format, is that it can make ads work better

This is likelier than the alternatives

that is interesting

claiming YouTube and Instagram are the two best acquisitions in modern tech history is one heck of a claim

Android instantly beats them both COMBINED

That being said they would definitely be in theTop 10

I think it's hard to value Android given that its monetization scheme (lower CAC for Google Search) really only works for Google.

If any company other than Google owned Android, it might not have been funded so well for so long, all while giving it away for free.

YouTube and Instagram were already huge brands when they bought but Android isn't. Possibly they can buy other OS (like Palm?) or develop it yourself?

How is this different from Amazon or Wal Mart -> This is a business built on top of cheap Chinese goods, subsidized shipping and low customer expectations. High transaction volume with very low margins, and totally exposed to the winds of international trade policy.

I agree 100% with the fact that we can do better than DuckDuckGo

A) DDG is already better than Google for some search queries

B) I use Epic Search and that is good, though it just uses Yahoo or Bing results (not sure which)

C) We should have a lot of search engines

It should not be Google paying $8 billion a year to Apple and $X a year to Firefox/Mozilla and leveraging Google Search as Default in Chrome

and monopolizing search