How do you onboard 1,000,000,000 people when you ignore the 10,000 that are still here?

How do you make progress by replaying zero sum games solved in 2017?

How can you call these experiments when there's nothing new in the equation?

if you're solving a big enough problem, pre-existing users don't matter

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For sure, the product that worked well for 10,000 users is almost completely different than one that serves 1b

These are just such entirely different orders of magnitude though

That's fair, though with enough cynicism I think that 10,000 dwindles down to 1,000 to 0. To which you have to reemerge as something totally different to disassociate from the past.

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could not disagree more with *gestures broadly* that whole ethos

Reminds me of the backlash against Facebook when they introduced the news feed in 2006 (vs previously needed to check a user's profile to see their posts)

https://time.com/archive/6921083/inside-the-backlash-against-facebook/

not sure that has to be true for social— tech twitter is still the dominant force on x, snapchat’s still young people trying to get nudes… reddit, discord, linkedin still have the same primary base.

can anyone actually label the user base here well, i wonder?

good take

so, what problem are we solving again?