Only consumer-visible startups automatically attract haters. If you start a B2B startup you can get as big as you want. But if you start a successful consumer-visible startup, you'll be gradually transformed in situ from plucky underdog to mustache-twirling villain.
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Absolutely unrelated to the above tweet.
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It’s like those velcro burrs you get in tall grass. It’s part of their unusual and complex reproductive system.
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Here's a fine example for substack... It's sad how a platform so useful gets criticized for absurd reasons.pic.twitter.com/WIj3L6dMNt
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doesn't come across as criticism of substack, more so about the nature of what becomes popular online
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Applies to people too, no? Imo, if you do anything on the Internet(as a Startup or a Person) and get some traction, you're bound to have haters. It's law of the land

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You missed the opportunity to say: "It's the law of the platforms."

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For every disruption there is equal and opposite criticism.
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Substack especially, given their obvious competition with legacy media
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