it was among the WeWorkian class of companies that, for me, represented everything wrong about startup evolution through the 2010s. Raise a ton of money, lose a ton of money, and just obliterate the basic economics of an industry.

"Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent." - but obviously there's been some sales on those DVDs too

"Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study."

"Meta-Markets is a non-profit stock market for social web content (...) people trade shares of their social web assets from online bookmarking, social networking, photo and video sharing services"