Two new services from Google’s main rivals are poised to undercut Google’s ad revenue Figure 1: Credit – ZDNet; using 2013 financial data. More recent data looks even more extreme since Google’s sale of Motorola to Lenovo. Ad revenue subsidizes pretty much all of Google’s crazy adventures, from self-driving cars to creepy robots. Facebook and Apple fired two heavy […]
Pocket vs. Instapaper – sacrificing growth for revenue
About a year and a half ago, Instapaper was the app of choice for saving articles to read later. The service saved the article on your web browser, stripped away all the formatting and compiled it in one place for you to read when you actually had the time. Instapaper was super-convenient and innovative. They […]
a16z and dumb capital
Before I jump in, a quick preface. I’ve been meaning to start writing more in order to build a body of work as well as simply maintain/get better at writing. I’m going to write a post every day for the next 30 days. For the most part, I’m going to focus on tech/startup topics. The […]