Hacker News

3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 21, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 55 times in 15 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sam Parr (24), Shaan Puri (23), Ben Wilson (4), Balaji Srinivasan (3), Justin Mares (1)

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2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 41 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode

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Everything said about Hacker News, oldest first

Apr 21, 2021 positive
Insight
Parr: Curated aggregator businesses require heavy upfront work but little maintenance
“I think that if you can get this to work, it takes a ton of work up front, very little work to maintain.”
Sam Parr Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 29:57 How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
Apr 21, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Sam Parr: Hacker News could be a $100M business without employees
“But if you were just like a normal guy and you had a valued off revenues, I think it would be worth 50 to a hundred million dollars. I bet you it could make eight million dollars a year in revenue. With no employees. And I bet you it's been capable of doing th…”
Sam Parr Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 14:11 How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
May 5, 2021 negative
Opinion
Balaji: Hacker News and Twitter link feeds fragment users' brains
“If you go and look at Hacker News, for example, or Twitter, there's something that you can't unsee once it's been pointed out, which is those 30 links are like a Jackson Pollock blah on, on, on, on the page, right? It's just, it's like guaranteed to just fragm…”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 18:55 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
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