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Wei_Dai comments on Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush? - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 July 2014 10:08AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 22 July 2014 04:15:57AM *  8 points [-]

I think you make a good point, however I'm really looking for >$1 million bills on the ground. The examples I gave in the post weren't primarily meant to be examples of success at picking up $100k bills on the ground, but rather examples of opportunities for >$1 million missed because I wasn't paying attention. For example, when I was registering for weidai.com, why didn't I stop to think, "the Internet will surely be big in China eventually, so let me just register all the available two syllable pinyin domain names while I'm at this"?