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What does "more than just another investor" mean? Like everyone here, I'm a PG fan, but I don't know what's being implied.

It's okay to connect her to Paul because...

- he's smarter than a typical investor? - he's more involved than a typical investor? - he's more wise than a typical investor?

If anything, PG and YC are much less involved than a typical investor (VC) when the company is at this stage. No board seat (for starters. But also he's invested in 100+ companies over the last few years. The other VCs involved here focus all their time on the 3-5 investments they have made over this period.

So I guess I just don't see the point. As far as I can think, either you're saying he's different because he's way better, which may be true but not fair to assume all would know or agree (see the church/temple posts above), or because YC's investment model is different, which to me would be true but with the opposite implication.

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Awesome 'found money' for Gaga and her label. Everyone who just wanted the free storage increase, or maybe decided to take the whole album because it was cheaper than a track, sent $8 her way from Amazon. She should have put out a promotion paying people $2 to buy the album through amazon, presuming her cut is greater!

I like the symmetry with the recent livingsocial promo ($20 at amazon for $10, where LS just bought the $20 credits at full price), which effectively flowed VC money to amazon to leverage amazon's brand appeal to acquire users to livingsocial. Amazon has now taken that money and given it to Gaga. How do I get on this train?

Woo -- 12 whole flights completed. Yawn, until we see something scale.

It's easy to overrate the savings opportunities in private air travel: there are empty seats! there are deadhead flights with no passengers!

But hard to realize those savings. You need enormous scale. And most private jets would be far less comfortable than an MD80 or 737 if all the seats were full and it wasn't your friends or family -- loud, no headroom, no service, tiny bathroom. They make up for it by flying where you want, when you want -- but we lose those a lot of those benefits with this "solution".

As said, this makes no sense hub to hub. Flying from Lubbock to Springfield? Maybe. Good luck filling those other six seats, and also filling that deadhead flight back.

Easy to miss that it was rated PG... I think a lot of parents took little kids on the basis that it was animated and pixar alone.