How do you onboard 1,000,000,000 people when you ignore the 10,000 that are still here?

How do you make progress by replaying zero sum games solved in 2017?

How can you call these experiments when there's nothing new in the equation?

if you're solving a big enough problem, pre-existing users don't matter

Reminds me of the backlash against Facebook when they introduced the news feed in 2006 (vs previously needed to check a user's profile to see their posts)

https://time.com/archive/6921083/inside-the-backlash-against-facebook/

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In hindsight, maybe those 8 million-plus people were right about not wanting friend activity as content feeds 🥲