"Top 8 to Top 0.0%"💋 Episode 39: Before algorithms, there was attitude. Bad Bella rewinds to her MySpace roots & fast-forwards to her life as a top-tier creator, fighter, &, freak🎙️ Only on Deep Thots!🎧 🔗 @ray_ray_xxx @RebelRhyderXXX @badbellaxo

Something that breaks my heart as a millennial is we actually thought we were going to fix everything. We had AIM and iPods and MySpace and a feeling that the world was genuinely getting better. We marched for things and believed it mattered. We watched a Black president get elected and thought that meant something permanent. We thought the internet would connect us. That information would free us. That progress was a door that once opened couldn’t be shut. Nobody told us about the people who had keys. Gen Z was born already knowing the door could close. They never got to be naive about it. That’s what hurts most. We lost the optimism after we had it. They never got to have it at all. And I genuinely don’t know which is worse

"We see founders who are talented, but are sticking with an idea that's not quite right, or not that good. And it's because there's something in their gut they know is amazing." @markpinc with some tough love for founders, and how his early failures led to his success at Zynga: "And that was me. I created one of the first three social networks, tribe dot net. And there were probably 10 launched in that 2-3 year period, including Facebook and MySpace. Eight of the 10 probably made it — were successful on some level. I was among the two that weren't." "It took an act of willpower to fail. And I had that much will. I was so determined to stick with this one losing idea, that by the time I got to Zynga, I was just not going to do that again." "And I still need to hear that message today. Because we fall in love with our ideas."

THE FEATURE THAT MADE YOUTUBE GO VIRAL HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH VIDEO Co-founder Chad Hurley took it straight from PayPal. At PayPal he watched people paste payment buttons onto any blog, auction, or website, and every button quietly pulled new users back. He turned that into the video embed. Anyone could grab a clip and drop it on their blog or MySpace page, even one they didn't upload, and the whole player became an ad: "That's how we viewed it. That was our marketing budget." Only the small play button started the video. Click anywhere else and you landed back on YouTube. Free distribution, paid for by everyone else's websites. Almost nobody builds for that on purpose.