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Group bids are fleeting moments of glory. They demonstrate how with a clearly defined goal and a well-defined action — contributing capital — a group of people can be coordinated in record speed.

The guys copying also don't need to spend time launching products that they saw didn't work that well. They just copy whatever they see works / can make money and iterate a bit on it (which is much faster than trial & error). We spend a lot of time on products and iterations on products that are not that used, or not anymore around- e.g. market... See more

If all our customers vanished, and we had to earn our growth and brand from scratch, what would we do?

We have a lot of stats that show that usage of the site is basically tied to how fast the site is. The faster we make the site, the more activity we see. I believe the latest data I saw was that if we made the site 100ms faster we'd have about 3% more activity and if we made the site a second faster we'd have about 20% more activity. That's a real

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But I love being a mom. I’m not always great at it—let’s be very clear about that. Sometimes I yell. I don’t enjoy playing make-believe, and I mostly leave the work of crawling on the floor and pushing Hot Wheels around the rug to Ken and the grandparents. Sometimes, I can get very caught up in my work and have a hard time focusing on what my son i... See more