| Which of those decisions is unintuitive? They are the same choices most big companies of the past 30years have made. > no advertising in the first several years, Standard VC funded startup > real name policy This may be the one non-obvious choice. > dropping out of college Like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs > moving to silicon valley ahem, document.location == "ycombinator.com" > hiring experienced tech executives How is hiring experienced tech executives unintuitive for a tech company? Google hired Eric Schmidt. Microsoft hired Steve Ballmer. > buying a dead-simple photo filter app for 1 billion dollars Paying a fortune for apps with eyeballs was the m.o. of the first dotcom era, and hasn't subsided. |