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I don't know how this squares with the the significant rise in traffic to their site:

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pinterest.com

Maybe as someone else mentioned, much of this is international growth? (india, Brazil?) If it is, then the traffic is a lot less valuable.

Hmmh, Oracle runs expensive front page Wall Street Journal Ads that say "Cut Your Amazon Bill in Half".

I wonder how effective these are. I've been seeing them since at least 2015 so they must be somewhat effective.

Here is what they look like (the banner on the right):

https://www.oracle.com/database/autonomous-database/guarante...

Oracle's stock is at a 5 year high!

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=WOh6XJXUMIeQ0gL0j...

Here's a counterpoint to that: Airbus's Lesson to Young Socialists:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbuss-lesson-for-young-social...

[headline from print version]

Great concept. But Why is there nothing about the team behind it? It feels less trustworthy.

I used the title from the print edition, which is shorter

I saw this question and dug up the following useful excerpts. It includes the 'fail safe' "9 Point Checklist for Implementing Guarantees:"

https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1541/have-money-back-...

For more context, this is a good read:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-we-nee...

Previous HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411991

Yes, thanks!

What do you consider recent?

A few that come to mind:

1. Surreal Vision, Acquired by Facebook. Renato Moreno has a CS Phd from Manchester I believe https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechno...

2. Turbo.net (privately held, successful virtualization company). Founder has Berkley CS Phd.

It is not communism. It is "socialism with Chinese characteristics" :) as Xi Jinping likes to remind everyone!

Try newsmax. A lot of products targeting older people do really well on their email lists. And the advertising is cheaper because mainstream brands won't advertise there due to the right wing and almost nutty voice of the publication.

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The phrase that comes to mind is: A students become professors, B Students become executives at large corporations. It is the C students who--perhaps lacking the traits to succeed in the previous two pursuits have no choice but to endure the risk/hardship of entrepreneurship--endow professorships and name buildings.

Examples of this:

1. Founder of Kinkos (failed in school and had to repeat two grades)

2. Billionaire Flavio Briatore

3. Almost Billionaire founder of Jimmy John's subs

Another phenomenon I see often is what I'd call "The Video Professor". The founder of that company reaped a massive fortune teaching "dunderheads" how to use computers and operate simple programs like Word and Excel. Many of my techie friends would sneer and dismiss it as being "too easy" and fail to recognize the business opportunity therein or other many similar opportunities.

By the way, there is an interesting discussion about this on Capital & Growth:

https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1334/are-billboards-r...

By the way, I found out about her from reading George Washington's biography. She wrote the poem below for him, after which he invited her to his official residence, met her as an equal and entertained her.

"Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side,

Thy ev'ry action let the Goddess guide.

A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine,

With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! Be thine."

(Full poem can be found here) https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/his-excellency-general-washi...

According to the biography's author, it showed Washington's capacity for growth. Previously he had been an avowed racist!

Indeed. There is an interesting discussion on Quora about whether he was smarter than Einstein.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-John-von-Neumanns-IQ-Was-he-s...

The conclusion seems to be that he had a higher raw IQ but Einstein was a 'deeper' thinker and better aesthetician. General relativity (which took Einstein 10 years of 'thought experiments') is often considered the greatest achievement of any single human mind. In Einstein's words:

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well." - Albert Einstein, 1923

There is a detailed account in Allen's book "Idea Man":

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/d...

Yes, now I am impressed!

Saw the movie Blackkklansman yesterday and in the new member induction scene, he is mentioned as a Klansman and a friend of the grand wizard. I got curious and did a lil research and sure enough...

My favorite book on sales tactics is Chet Holmes, the Ultimate Sales Machine. Here is a summary:

https://capitalandgrowth.org/articles/893/book-summary-the-u...

Here is some info for YouTube celebs:

https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/414/how-much-do-youtu...

Not owning real estate is the reason for the high valuation. Hilton and Marriott discovered this a long time ago, and more recently AirBnb.

Congrats Rand. Great to see you succeeding.

As a Conversion Rate Optimization consultant I couldn't agree more. We have specific domain expertise and our clients need us infrequently. We also have a large library of wins and can quickly help them get into the high performance zone (and dramatically increase revenue) without them directly incurring the time and expense--A/B testing is expensive from a media buying perspective. But we eventually hit diminishing returns and at that time it is best to end the engagement and move on. If you are curious, here's a case study:

https://moz.com/blog/cro-case-study

A lot. According to Steven Pinker, when many get their first taste of the politics rife in academia, they conclude: I think I prefer to make some money! And thereafter dedicate their big brains to finding ways to shave off a fraction of a second in placing trades for hedge funds!

I believe Jared Diamond answers this question in Guns, Germs and Steel. Africans didn't have iron tools (or acquired them relatively late) and so were not as effective hunters. The animals therefore had a much longer time to adapt against their predators.

I believe Jared Diamond answers this question in Guns, Germs and Steel. Africans didn't have iron tools and were not as effective hunters, so the animals had a much longer time to adapt against their predators.

Good to hear from good ol' Gasse! whenever he is mentioned I can't help but remember this quote of his:

"We must always give our users pure sex. It's like a rendezvous in the back seat of an automobile with a beautiful girl. One's experience with the personal computer should be better than the greatest orgasm you could have."

If I could pick only one it would be communication skills. Writing and speaking clearly and being able to explain things well, especially to non-technical stakeholders.