The obvious reason just occurred to me why VC & SV founder Twitter seem way more exercised re: #COVID19 than East Coast media & finance: since ~2008 the entire Bay Area is obsessed with exactly one number that rules all others for founder & investor returns: viral coefficient.
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Unless you are slaving away in some obscure corner of B2B, everyone lives and dies by "virality." So there is this entire culture that's dedicated to thinking about & chasing & modeling this number. So when they spot an actual virus with a high Ro, they know what that means.
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@DanielleFong@MackayIM Jesus. You guys really don’t speak English anymore do you. Never mind tomato n potato. “This” thing ? Is a virus. Things running through wires or the air to social media ? That’s shite lol. Sorry. Just an opinion.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@WhyScots you’re having a tough night. this “virality” concept is totally widespread in the software world and anyway the plan we are trying to do to beat it is to use the internet and the power of software to scale the right processes and ideas faster than the virus spreads4 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
I can still observe n comment like an elder. You young folk still make the same mistakes we did in our day
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ok thank you boomer
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Lack of respect for your elders young lady
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