The Importance of Scaling Your Ad Business

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Facebook is an amazing ad business. Not clear that every business should be an ad business. Uber was more of like a one shot epic company than something that people could just blindly copy and be just as successful as Facebook. The idea that superficially copying Uber and copying the things that they set in interviews, pretending that you're Travis doesn't work. It's just like wearing a black turtleneck does not make you Apple.

When it comes to building a startup you’re never doing it entirely from scratch. Inspiration and ideas can come from a variety of places, including other successful startups. But there’s a thin line between borrowing smart ideas and copying them blindly - otherwise known as Cargo Culting.

In this episode Dalton and Michael break down the problem with Cargo Culting and offer advice on the right way to draw inspiration from other successful companies. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply
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