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poorjohnmacafee
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Definitely understand the appeal for first time founders, and founders who are early in their careers so don't have contacts in the industry they are building products for, but having gone through an accelerator myself, I can't really imagine going through an accelerator a second time. Maybe for second time it still makes it easier to get introductions for b2b customers? But the accelerator I went through also taught a ton of strategies/tools for getting early customers without depending on just other companies in the network using each others products.
poorjohnmacafee
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Quick look at financials, they lost $25M in trailing 12 months, lost $14M in the previous year, lost $10M in the year before.

How is Duolingo supposed to become profitable?

How is a $6.5B valuation justified?
poorjohnmacafee
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> Do children today have useful childhoods?

Well articulated. I always felt a visceral sense that childhood, the school world, and even arguably college for many feels like we're being kept in some weird pin sequestered from the real world.

As the author shows with early examples, this is not how it's ever been in human societies (as a default for everyone) prior to the last 100 years.

Could this be thought of as a massive experiment the Western first world is undertaking?