Failures, regrets, "don't do this" insights
7 insights
He pattern-matched Facebook's traffic to worthless e-card sites. He missed the invention of surveillance capitalism.
Zach launched a course with Lamborghini-and-cash videos inspired by Andrew Tate's playbook. It went viral — and started beef he did not need.
You can build something real on a fake foundation — for a while. Eventually the gap closes.
When your business model depends on users getting less of what they want, you're on borrowed time.
If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will — without the internal politics.
Short-term fear of downside destroyed the greatest upside in business history.
Scale and boldness are not substitutes for judgment.