Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
9 Sept 2020 Acquired Special: Acquired x My First Million
“You got to figure out some way to bootstrap that cold start problem. But I think the data entry is really easy, and you could do cool stuff over time like charting how it’s gone up and down.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 9 Sept 2020
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…Yeah. Sam’s nomadically bouncing around every two weeks or three weeks, I think. It’s this classic cold start problem of what a useless website you’ve created, Ben. There are zero entries on here. You got to figure out some way to bootstrap that cold start problem. But I think the data entry is really easy, and you could do cool stuff over time like charting how it’s gone up and down. At the very least, you can probably create 5-10 spots in every city where super nerds who saw this on Product Hunt uploaded data for the first time. It has a pretty low bar for minimum efficient scale. Would you literally build it based off of what Airbnb inventory is? Airbnb tells you if it has WiFi or not, which is kind of useless. If it doesn’t have WiFi, just take it off the site. If it has WiFi, okay, that doesn’t tell me if that’s going to work for what I need.…
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