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@chasewreeves As an acquisition, YouTube worked because:

a) it augments Google's primary economic driver (ads) and primary feature (search)
b) Google had the money to float YouTube until they could get the monetization engine going
c) Google partnered with creators, shared rev, built tools

@misterparker It hasn’t always lost money: they recorded profits in 2017 and 2018.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income-of-twitter/

@Casey_Dwyer Thanks, Casey!

@coding2020 Thanks for the kind words. Glad it was thought-provoking. 👍

@jessethanley How do you propose we determine what's "too much" (on either end of the scale)?

What tips someone over the line of being a "constant blabberer?"

Should we keep discussing certain topics, even though some people find it fatiguing?

@JackEllis I mean Google+ had tons of "users" (every Gmail automatically had a Google+ account), which would have been 2.5 billion at the time.

Over 250 million created a Google+ post.

Pretty big scale! But, at the time, hard to compete with FB.

@rosiesherry @JackEllis In terms of earning a profit, there are very few: YouTube, Facebook (IG).

Twitch is reported to be close to profitable.

TikTok isn't profitable yet:
https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/10/06/tiktok-parent-company-bytedance-earnings-finances-revenue-losses-spend/#:~:text=Even%20though%20ByteDance%20is%20still,%25%20year%2Dover%2Dyear.

WhatsApp isn't profitable:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/18/how-whatsapp-grew-from-near-failed-app-to-metas-next-monetization-push.html#:~:text=But%20while%20WhatsApp's%20commitment%20to,from%20ever%20really%20becoming%20profitable.

@chrispodcasting You're underestimating how big MySpace was. It was MASSIVE and completely ingrained in our culture.

Watch movies made between 2005-2010, and it's likely they'll make a MySpace reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

@chrispodcasting MySpace was beloved and incredibly popular, as were Digg and Vine.

@MJB_SF I’m here: @mijustin" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@mijustin

RT @frontstuff_io: You can "work hard" within business hours.

If your people have to push beyond these to get the job done, maybe you, as…

RT @karaswisher: More from former tweep: They fired EVERYBODY on two of the teams that were working on things they want to launch. https://…

RT @mijustin: In a world that idolizes billionaires, I'm cheering for indie creators who are building small, profitable, calm companies.

I…

RT @hankgreen: Maybe “the public square” is just kinda hard to monetize.

@shaisc Nice! 🎉 Well done. 👍

@StarrHorne 🎯 this.

@KateBour @HiddenBrain 🙌

That episode was so good.

(That first 5 minutes, as parent: very relatable! 😅)

@KateBour @HiddenBrain Listening now!

@sivers Loving this series! I’ve been sharing it with my kids.

RT @JCardenete: Stripe just set a new bar for “excellent” layoffs:
- Leadership owns fault
- 1:1 w managers
- 14 weeks severance
- https://…

@jevon 😆

I need new stock advice for 2023 😅

RT @venikunche: What are your favorite tech communities (Slack, Discord, FB groups etc) that are active and welcoming?

A quick note on why…

RT @jamesrbuk: If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter…Twitter’s curr…

RT @KristyT: I cannot stop laughing at "We need to pay the bills somehow!" 😂😂😂

@GBPpilot I’ve been criticizing Elon long before he took over Twitter.

You clearly haven’t been reading my newsletter (or my tweets). 😉

@aarondfrancis @jessethanley I agree verification has value, but do you really want to pay *monthly* for that?

Which do you prefer?

- $20/month ongoing fee to maintain your "verified" status
- One-time fee ($100?) to become verified

@JeffDauler ❤️ thank you!

@adamwathan SO GOOD! 🙌

💃🔥

@gtichy Haha. https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1587456814815158272

@tdinh_me Which product?

Are there more software developers than accountants?

RT @5harath: Chatting with the super awesome @mijustin tomorrow on my podcast - The Undefeated Underdogs!

What should I ask him? https://t…

@wassimdotco Uranium is the main fuel for nuclear reactors. Why do they need oil?

We’ll need oil, ore, cement etc to build the infrastructure, but there could be far less oil consumed for transportation, residential, etc

We need to decouple economic growth from oil supply.

@wassimdotco “Collective action is needed by the world’s nations more now than at any point since the second world war to avoid climate tipping points, Prof Johan Rockström said.”

There’s still a chance.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies

@sune_j In this case, the “devil” is in total impact: trades like plumbing just haven’t been disrupted or changed by technology in the same way that other sectors have.

@sune_j But they haven't undergone the large-scale transformation that other sectors have: manufacturing (with robotics), AI-generative art, e-commerce, etc...

@AlexanderHaque @TransistorFM Yes! It was great. 👍

Why do you think that is?

While some trade work has benefitted from technological “augmentation” (power tools) so much of that work still seems to rely on human brains, human assessment, and manual human labor.

4/x

A question I would have loved to have asked @delong:

Technology has disrupted a certain type of human work (the loom, the plow, the switchboard, manufacturing) and AI seems poised to disrupt modern work (drivers, illustrators, programmers).

1/x

@typeoneerror I haven’t seen it yet! 😅

@peldi @balsamiq Love it!

👀 I want to see that list of items in the Balsamiq Workstation.

@chrisfosterelli @podcastharry Ok. But how do I “growth hack” this? 😄😜

@damengchen 🎉

@andrewamann yup

RT @noahwbragg: Just listened back to one our old podcast episode with @mijustin.
Great reminder that...

- The market you build in really…

@_KevinGraham I’ve calculated what Stripe + Avalara would cost, and it’s still seems significantly less than Paddle. 🤷‍♂️

@ianlandsman The principle is still sound: it would be way easier to collect from a handful of big banks (wires, etc) + credit card companies than from hundreds of millions of individual businesses.

@ianlandsman Exactly.

If governments went to MasterCard, VISA, and AMEX and said "we want you to handle all the sales tax collection and remittance for us" they'd only have to monitor three companies, and ensure the calculations were correct (as opposed to millions of SMBs)

@kilianvalkhof This is assuming we hired a company like Avalara to do that stuff for us.

It's still 10s of thousands of dollars cheaper to do it that way.

(Plus, switching to Paddle from Stripe would be a nightmare and also requires tons of work on our side)

@startupvernon Yes!!!

cc @CityofVernon @kelly_fehr @BrianTGuy2022

@chrispodcasting @jonbuda @TransistorFM YESSSSS

@KeliWestgate https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/europe/liz-truss-lettuce-stream.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@jmckinven @jonbuda @TransistorFM 🙌 LOVE IT

@RobertERitz @nbashaw @every Let's test this out! I'll publish this on my blog and see if I can get this post to rank for "how to plan your remote work retreat" on Google.

I'll report back with the results. 👍

@_danielmeade @cauuuseco NICE! 🙌

Upload that sucker and get it distributed to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.

@asmartbear What's the context for this one?

RT @asmartbear: Good questions.

I’ll add: remove the periodicity. Don’t commit to “weekly.” Just see how frequently you can make somethin…

RT @michael_diamant: Can you paint a pig? Well, we have to do that a lot in short term to create livable environments out of all the modern…

@AdrianMcIntyre Thank you!

@evoterra Lol. That’s me!

@ChrisLaBossiere Love this. Looks incredible.

@twigpress Oh no! I mistakenly thought you could only meet for lunch on Sunday! 🤦‍♂️

@nicol3a @TransistorFM @jsonperl @HelenRyles A few of us are getting together for lunch on Friday. Let me know if you’d like to come!

@yongfook @TransistorFM @jsonperl @HelenRyles Agreed.

@brunomorency ❤️ Montreal. It’s so good to be back.

@jwblackwell Hahaha. The hardest step!

@johnspurlock Yessssssss

@heyitsleeann How magicians make podcasts

@imadni @figma @sketch @InVisionApp I’m talking about “winning” from a business perspective: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1574852224056172544

@fabiofranchino My guess is they’ve grown since this was published.

@dohertyjf That’s the whole point of my tweet. 😜

@dohertyjf Business isn’t a zero sum game though?

@JamesCridland Agreed. Well done. 👍

@_brandswell Do you have example of the grid kicking around? I might print some out!

RT @leenyburger: I gave up alcohol and sugar for two weeks and I feel....
.....exactly the same. So don't bother you're fine.

RT @mijustin: Also, the startup trope of the "starving founder" is toxic.

Founders shouldn't perpetually sacrifice their quality of life.…

RT @marckohlbrugge: Measure once, cut twice

"You often don’t know yet what it is exactly you’re making. You’re figuring it out as you go a…

@DustinLeblanc Surprisingly, I’ve gone 6 times this year!

@daysormay @carson_bassett_ ❤️ nyc

@johnspurlock Oops. 😅

@toddhixenbaugh_ For me, two things inspire me to keep podcasting:

1. The responses I get from listeners (tweets, emails, DMs, etc)
2. The conversations + connections I get to have with my co-hosts, guests, etc..

@amber_yanwang Why should we be worried about a big corporation's business model when it has negative consequences for society?

@ctwtn @jackconte It’s actually by design (especially platforms like TikTok). The “atomic unit” of AI-driven content is the piece of content (the creator doesn’t matter).

@eduardor2k Exactly; that’s a dystopian hell

@Jonflarson I haven’t! I’ll check it out.

@jmckinven @TransistorFM yessssss. Love it.

@0xstark @ljin18 “Consumer behavior” did not dominate the early years of the internet!

The early internet was a network of universities, research stations, government nodes.

Even the early web was largely academic & nerdy.

Many of us have felt like citizens of the internet from the beginning.

@iamjeremyenns @TransistorFM Lol. Yes.

What could be "more Reddit" than "Spankymustard?" 😜

@KeliWestgate Whaaaat? In Coldstream?

RT @tylertringas: "how does this actually work?"
"what are we trying to do here?"
"does this do what we think it does?"
"could it be better…

@davewiner @conoro @SlackAPI YES!!! ✊

@ScotBertram @TransistorFM Feel free to DM me (or ping us on live chat) if you need anything.

@CorbettBarr I’m writing a blog post on this right now!

@p_millerd @ListenNotes @Podchaser @Google @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts We'd love to, but the apps don't give us an easy way of identifying episode-specific links.

@noahwbragg @Oatmeal I just don’t see why need this whole cryptography layer on top.

(I also don’t like the centralization in marketplaces like OpenSea, etc)

@kornatzky We’d love to have you at @TransistorFM!

I made a nice guide for getting started with podcasting here:

https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/

@zkahn when are we going to see an “@ApplePodcasts Original” for Severance? 🙏 https://twitter.com/Fischer_Greg_/status/1567570238534815746

@gaburieru4649 🙌

@mikevardy 🥰

@lukehebb @stripe It still works!

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1567171720204910594