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Wolfe praises Bezos as rational capital allocator, criticizing Musk's truthfulness
“And the quibble is with his relationship with the truth. And I look at Gates and I look at Bezos, both of whom I admire for different reasons. Bezos in particular, who I consider one of the greatest and most rational capital allocators, the amount of capital t…”
Isenberg: Incumbents like Amazon hold an unfair AI advantage over startups
“Some of the bigger retailers and e-commerce players like the Amazons of the world have so much more data that they actually have an unfair advantage
If they want to go down this route, because you could get into a situation where, you know, your Carly bot oper…”
Lavingia: Over 90% of startup value comes from engineer-founded giants
“If you look at startups and you say, okay, 99% of the public value is basically, or 90 plus percent is basically in four or five companies. Right? If you get rid of, like, Google, Amazon, Meta, like, we haven't done shit as an industry, right? In terms of actu…”
Cole: Publish novel genres widely, niche books on Kindle Unlimited
“If you're creating something new, you publish it wide, but if you're creating something really niche, ah, you should look at the existing categories in Kindle Unlimited, and then basically, like, try and stay in that category, and then you're just playing the …”
Cole: Top Lit RPG books generate $250,000 per month
“There are lit RPG books right now doing like a quarter million a month.”
Finkelstein: Shopify GMV ranks second behind Amazon in US online retail
“If you pretend we were retailer, we would be the second largest online retailer in America after Amazon.”
Isenberg: Amazon sellers gladly pay $99/mo to spot product gaps
“Amazon sellers will gladly pay 99 dollars a month to find product gaps before competitors do.”
Thompson: An Amazon seller made $30M selling hummingbird nectar without ads
“There's a guy on Amazon that's done thirty million dollars selling sugar as hummingbird nectar on over the last 10 years. And his branding is like atrocious, has never ran a Facebook ad in his life.”
Sub-4.0 Amazon ratings signal easy product opportunities, like dog pee pads
“There's, you know, washable pee pads for senior dogs and the average rating is 3.88. So like that's a bad rating, right? So that means that there's an opportunity to create great products and it's giving you, it's telling you why people aren't enjoying the pro…”
Cole: Lit RPG on Amazon has far more readers than writers
“What's so interesting about this subcategory on Amazon is that there's way more readers than there are creators. There's a lot more people who want to read lit RPGs than there are people writing it.”
Dogecoin Beat Apple and Amazon in Retail Trading Volume Last Year
“Doge was the, over the past 12 months, the fourth most traded asset across all retail brokers and exchanges. And it was, it beat out by the way, it beat out Apple, Amazon, and the SPY index, the S&P. It was literally behind Tesla, Bitcoin, and Ethereum”
Chu: Zero-backlink tap water directory reached 40,000 monthly visitors in months
“This guy named Andy in our community, but a tap water quality directory, no backlinks started it back in, I want to say November and he's getting over 40,000 monthly visitors got accepted into the media vine selling like water filters through Amazon affiliate.”
Kagan: Publishers avoid green business book covers due to industry superstition
“What was really interesting, if you go look on Amazon or a bookstore, there's no green business books. Which is kind of funny given that a lot of business is about money. They think it's taboo or bad luck, but we tested it and I also like the color myself.”