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Totally surreal to wake up and see your 9-year passion project on the front of the @WSJ.
Thanks @bzcohen, for really capturing the essence of @AcquiredFM.
Ben Gilbert
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Ben Gilbert
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Co-Host, @AcquiredFM
- If you think your app needs more polish, always remember Google shipped Maps without Europe.This is what Google Maps looked like on launch day in 2005. It’s uh... missing some countries.
- It is absolutely astonishing that the fastest plane ever built (still!) was designed and flown before the invention of the calculator.
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe SR-71 Blackbird first flight was in 1964, whereas the first 'electronic' calculator was created in 1961. The first 'solid state pocket calculator' was created in the early 1970s, after the first flight of the Blackbird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculato… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_… - Shazam is something where if you saw it for the first time today, you'd be like "wow that's some crazy AI magic." Nuts that it was invented >20 years ago.
- I love this litmus test for if a company has a strong brand or not. From Seth Godin:
- It's wild that the 4 largest companies in France are ALL luxury/beauty.
- Busy people have two windows they can talk: A) 1-3 weeks out, with intense scheduling B) "Actually, free now in case that works to give me a ring"
- As usual, @benthompson has the best take I've seen on Figma. I didn't realize how much "close to the metal" code they wrote to achieve the breakthrough UX they have. stratechery.com/2022/adobe-acq…
- There was once a PM at Slack who decided Cmd+K should not be the keyboard shortcut for hyperlinks. I would like to know this person's name and phone number.
- I am literally speechless. NVIDIA just grew data center sales 141% in a quarter. That's not compared against this quarter last year. That's literally growth in three months. $4.3B -> $10.3B That's... with the constraint of needing to ship physical hardware to customers. Nuts.
