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Michael Rubin built a multi-billion dollar company, sold it to Ebay, bought it back for pennies on the dollar, and built it back into another multi-billion dollar company.
Time for a thread 👇👇👇
Joe Pomplianox.comAbout 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea.
The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%.
For example:
> Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming... See more
Marc Randolphx.com
We want to create a seller program in quick commerce which is significantly better than any other and our benchmark has always been the OG🫡, FBA @Amazon
To that end, we have launched Blinkit Seller Hub (https://t.co/FrtZbiYciO) to make selling via Blinkit completely self-serve for brands, without a need to interface... See more
Aggregators make it dramatically simpler and cheaper for suppliers to reach customers (which is why suppliers work so hard to be on their platform). This increases the types of new businesses that can be created by virtue of the aggregators existing (YouTube creators, Amazon merchants, small publications, etc.); regulators should take care to... See more
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Defining Aggregators
Broken Record Podcast - Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell Music Podcast
pushkin.fm
I met @ramtinnaimi through Michael Ovitz who described him as among the hardest working young people he’s met. Seeing as how Ovitz has met…everyone…I was intrigued.
Despite some early stumbles, Ramtin has pushed incredibly hard to become one of the leading and most active seed investors (and art collectors!) in the... See more