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by brookst 389 days ago
How does speculative investment get 500m DAU?
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bitwize 389 days ago
I dunno, how did Juicero get $120m?
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ryandrake 389 days ago
Exactly. It is possible for a metric like DAUs to come almost entirely from marketing saturation, heavy promotion, and hype, and not from actual utility to the user. I'm not sure that's the case in particular for ChatGPT but I wouldn't be surprised.
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