Hyatt: Scaling a consumer social startup costs an order of magnitude more today
Michael Hyatt · #80 Can This App Silence The Trolls? · Mar 3, 2025 · at 15:16
Michael Hyatt explains to Good Talk founder Ben Trenda why building consumer social apps is far more capital-intensive than in previous cycles.
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“The cost to scale this kind of company, I think, has gone up an order of magnitude than what it used to.”
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