Chaebols were another crazy thing about Korea (not only Korea of course)

Giant family owned companies like Samsung, LG, Hyundai that own 30-50% of the GDP

And they are interwoven with the Korean government

This results in many good things but also many…

I love nobody Korean is cancelling me for this but just agreeing

Great property to the culture it's self critical

↘️ Quoting Steven Jang (@garlicgarrison)

@levelsio Korean approved 👍

Yes what happened to @Spotify auto translation of podcasts to any language with HeyGen-type voice tech?

↘️ Quoting Ollie 🔨👷 (@theposhbuilder)

@levelsio @Spotify Stumbled upon this. Spotify tested this as a pilot but don’t seem to have rolled it out beyond…

Interesting way of doing competitor analysis on an X thread by Wise CEO @kaarmann

Nice way to get attention for your own product by talking about competitors in a neutral way (he compliments those with low fees)

↘️ Quoting Kristo Käärmann (@kaarmann) …

If hotels just added basic kitchens

Airbnb would be out of business

↘️ Quoting kitze 🚀 (@thekitze)

am i the only one who completely lost interest in airbnb? especially now with a kid. for a similar price? give me a 4+ star hotel with a reception and a…

Selina is a party hostel marketed as digital nomad hotel so American backpackers can tell their parents they go to South America to "work" remotely while they actually go to party and sleep with Juan

↘️ Quoting Dan Thomson ⛩️✨ (@vagrantcrypto)

@levelsio…

Makes more sense in 2024 to put license plates on the side of cars instead of front and back

So you can see what's your Uber

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So @Cloudflare made a Web App Firewall (WAF) to protect your LLM from getting hacked

Also includes rate limiting which is useful to avoid racking up a high API bill quickly if a user sends 1000 msgs in 1 second for ex

https://blog.cloudflare.com/firewall…

↘️ Quoting European Central Bank (@ecb)

The apparent stabilisation of bitcoin’s value is likely to be an artificially induced last gasp before the crypto-asset embarks on a road to irrelevance. #TheECBblog looks at where bitcoin stands amid widespread volatility…

Things the EU hates turn out to be great investments (pt 2)

Things the EU hates turn out to be great investments

Things the EU hates turn out to be great investments

Invest in what the EU wants to ban

X's algo is essentially the same as TikTok now

So it means less now if you have followers or not

X shows your posts to a number of people first (~200 on TikTok) then if your post gets engagement it gets amplified more

If not, it gets buried

Volumeposting…

Invest in whatever the EU wants to ban

↘️ Quoting Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo)

@levelsio ?

Cofounders are pushed by VCs so their bet becomes higher odds because often one founder quits, burns out, is done, so they want a backup founder

Ask any VC and they'll admit this to you in private

Only benefits VCs not you

For you: a cofounder means your…

Nope

Because VCs have contractual power to kick out any cofounder or cofounders they want

So if one cofounder dysfunctions, they kick him out and have the backup founder

Endless stories of VCs kicking founders from their own companies, happened to Uber…

That's not my point

The point is VCs have a vested interest in making people who want to do startups believe you need a cofounder

That's why everyone thinks you need a cofounder when you don't

↘️ Quoting Luke Skinner (@CoolHandLukefer)

@levelsio Investors…

Eloi vs Morlocks

↘️ Quoting Adam Singer (@AdamSinger)

Everyone thinks we're going to Wall-E or Idiocracy world. But this wholesale assumes *everyone* will be dumbed down, which seems unlikely. Enough humans who don’t want to live like that will persist.…