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Patrick McKenzie
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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv May 24
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      Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Brent Beshore

      I basically focus on 5 and 6 and trust everything else to mostly work out. Most people I talked to about this laughed and mocked my naïve idealism for about the first 10 years or so. But for me it was always just mathhttps://twitter.com/BrentBeshore/status/1264522215292235778 …

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      Brent BeshoreVerified account @BrentBeshore
      Highest signal sales advice I've ever seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285438 … pic.twitter.com/nVLwjaDAci
      5 replies 1 retweet 59 likes
    2. Emmett Shear‏Verified account @eshear May 24
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      Replying to @visakanv

      This contains my least favorite analogy. The vitamin industry is vastly larger than the painkiller industry in reality. Build vitamins: something people need every day!

      2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    3. Paul Buchheit‏ @paultoo May 24
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      Replying to @eshear @visakanv

      Replace aspirin with opioids :)

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    4. Colin Beattie‏ @ColinBeeTee May 24
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      Replying to @paultoo @eshear @visakanv

      Alternatively, replace PB’s @paultoo Opioid with Ketamine. The US public has begun to. The US military has. It is now THE frontline pain relief in a combat situation. An anti depressant. A PSYCHEDELIC! The mind buys solutions to its needs. Sales speaks solutions to the mind.

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    5. Paul Buchheit‏ @paultoo May 24
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      Replying to @ColinBeeTee @eshear @visakanv

      I wasn’t suggesting that opioids are the right solution! They are however more profitable than aspirin I suspect

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    6. Emmett Shear‏Verified account @eshear May 25
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      Replying to @paultoo @ColinBeeTee @visakanv

      I went and did the math on this at one point. By any data I could find, and including opiates, vitamins still outsell painkillers by an order of magnitude. Or they did in 2009 anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499929 

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    7. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv May 25
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      Replying to @eshear @paultoo @ColinBeeTee

      I like that you've hated this analogy for over a decade

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 25
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      Replying to @visakanv @eshear and

      If I were an efficient man I'd have a bookmark folder to record Comments I Have Disagreed With Most Strongly On The Internet but since I am not I instead have a Notebook of Grudges.

      9:05 AM - 25 May 2020
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        2. Travis Northcutt‏ @tnorthcutt May 25
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          Replying to @patio11 @visakanv and

          I'm taking this as "Patrick feels strongly that selling painkillers is a better strategy than vitamins, all else being equal and as general advice etc." Fair?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 25
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          Replying to @tnorthcutt @visakanv and

          Oh no, in the instant case it means “I empathize most strongly with continuing to argue with a single comment for years that I have a literal Notebook of Grudges.”

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
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        1. Peter J. Poole‏ @caesararum May 25
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          Replying to @patio11 @visakanv and

          “I’m not angry enough today; what can I do about it? Oh, I know! I shall dredge up past arguments!”

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