Talking about a high bar:
From MIT Technology Review:
“A proposed new social network is hoping to entice millions of people to pay to get close to superstars of technology, business, and academia, according to a pitch deck (pdf) sent to MIT Technology Review. The nascent site, called Column, already has major connections, per the deck: …it has the support of Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel—who, however, denies it.
The presentation for Column, which describes it as “a social network to make us all smarter,” names businessman Aron Ping D’Souza as CEO and Thiel as a founding user.”
Angela Chen, MIT Tech Review
How it makes money
As well as the $100,000 stakes it plans to raise from early “equity holders,” brands and businesses would pay Column for their involvement. The site plans to generate revenue by what it calls “taxation”: taking a percentage of revenue made from subscriptions.”
MIT
Is this another elitist snub at the common folk ? You know, let’s keep it in the family…
I don’t know. But I won’t be paying them $100,000 to join their ranks. Count me out as an equity founding holder.
Because, for 7 years straight, I’ve been giving here the best “truths” about life and business, without having a “truth” button for you to click on. “Truth” is not a button in the pockets of the academic and business elites.
For all the clown show and virtue-signalling on Twitter and Facebook, at least you can see past the non-sense.