instacart did what?? #startups #ycombinator

[CheezMonsterCrazy]

What about the fact that most of these companies don't have a sustainable business model and only continue to exist because they became loss leaders long enough to force sustainable competition out of the market before jacking up their prices, lowering quality of service, and losing customer confidence?

[slimjimjimslim]

You can glamorize how amazing these company are but remember the 90% of the work landed on a bunch of low level employee who was just surviving and probably got laid off as the company grew and hired more and more cheaper labor from Asia. Each time a company grows they just think of new inventive ways to cut cost

[AndrewTFenn]

Survivor bias. What about the list that's a thousand times bigger of companies that did this and failed?

[mredgt]

a lot of those "tricks" are probably illegal by now for tax or, safety, licensing or other regulatory reasons and whatnot

[deathsheadhawkmoth]

Hey, quick question, is Door Dash profitable?

[BadDecisionDinosaur]

instantly one of my top 100 spreadsheets!

[fulldeploy]

Let’s call it what they actually are: False product market fit. They only did those things long enough to get VC money. It’s borderline scammy. Let’s not normalize this.

[kausthubkrishnamurthy]

Williams Formula 1 team did their ENTIRE BOM... in a single excel spreadsheet... for an entire FORMULA 1 CAR!!

[GerardIrvine]

Diapers online (or similiar), would get an order and just go buy them from walmart

[yaush_]

And most of those companies still aren’t profitable

[mohamedabdul]

This gave me motivation to continue to work on my app lol thanks

[avananana]

Remember that for every startup that makes it, 100s fail and dozens of people's life savings are thrown away because they saw a video like this, thinking they can do it too.

[RockstarRaccn]

They keep telling us that Mastodon / Fediverse isn't And we just keep scaling it.

[hjewkes]

Aka list of companies that may have lied to investors in the early days 😅

[balincarmichael]

You’re supposed to make skits. Where’s Cindy

[fluWmiR]

BRO ONE OF THE 'TACTICS' JUST SAYS 'BE CREATIVE' YOU ARE A SPUD

[TheDeathMocker]

Lol it's 17, click bait.. thanks man...-_-