The value of Facebook is $1T.The value of all Y Combinator companies is $300B. $0.3T.Just one Facebook is worth…
This is a practical guide for engineers and product managers about how to combine multiple definitions of item quality to form a “pretty good” overall score of quality using a simple linear model. This isn’t the best or optimal way to optimize…
In a consumer internet startup, where a brilliant product visionary is driven by an unwavering belief in his/her idea, it is seen as something of a failure in design or…
Sarah Taval writes in the “Hierarchy of Marketplaces” that the way to build a winning marketplace…
In our last few posts about the first principles of advertising we talked about how important ad quality is for the long term health of your business and how many ways they can go wrong. Ads…
In our last post in this series on how to introduce advertising to your platform we talked about why Google doesn’t advertise against the word kittens and how maintaining the health of any advertising…
