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comment by dublinben

Andreessen Horowitz is the name of a venture capital firm, not a single person. Their strategy is definitely to latch onto a popular site, and squeeze out the profit by cranking up the advertisements.





user-inactivated  ·  3425 days ago  ·  link  ·  

1) I feel dumb for not clicking on the name to find out it's not a dude, but a company.

2) At this point, isn't it safe to say "advertising" is everybody's answer to making money on the internet?

dublinben  ·  3425 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's certainly the prevailing business model. I haven't seen too many others that scale to a large size.

kleinbl00  ·  3425 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oddly enough, prior to AH stomping in they were trying to sell "Imgur Pro." I think that was about six weeks before Flickr ditched Flickr Pro.