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it was incredibly cheeky at the time to embed a commercial message involuntarily to everything sent by your customers so you signed up for hotmail it feels like a normal email account but now every message you sent has this get your free email at hotmail.com
the idea that the message itself was the vector of uh of spread of marketing in a sense no like a virus which came from the signature when you sent a hot mail it said sent by hotmail or powered by hotmail
the thing that it really epitomized was first you know rapid internet growth for us second this thing we basically coined the term viral marketing because of hotmail
the one people have heard of boom like yeah that was the first one that got visibility bought by microsoft bingo for about 400 million dollars
i just want to give credit to him because it was incredibly cheeky at the time to embed a commercial message involuntarily to everything sent by your customers so you signed up for hotmail it feels like a normal email account but now every message you sent has this get your free email at hotmail.com
more recently they're custom chips called asics that are specialized for ai that are vastly outperforming those nvidia chips
intel is no longer the harbinger of progress there is no intel product for the last 13 years that matters in terms of the frontier of computational capture
tesla and spacex are fundamentally software companies that is the basis of their competition
the automotive industry or the aerospace industry that go decades without a new entrant decades without any change that anyone can point to that's meaningful or disruptive and then the teslas and spacex lead the change
i think tesla and spacex will fit into that uh moniker
when they succeed like tesla or spacex you can see how they've reinvented entire industries
spacex companies like that are very visible ... it's maybe an iconic example of something that very few of us probably thought was a venture investable category