This guy is my biggest inspiration cause how can you do martial arts, gym, chess, college, and work at one of the frontier AI labs in the world at the same time? Insane amounts of dedication and agency, nothing but respect to you brotha.
story behind "why netflix built https://t.co/YDCurkt2BM" is brilliant.
so, netflix had a massive fight with ISPs around 2014-2016. ISPs were slowing down netflix on purpose. they wanted more money from netflix
customers got bad streaming. but ISPs just blamed netflix.
netflix had to pay comcast, verizon, at&t and time warner for direct connections to their networks.
but in 2016, they launched fast dot com, clever part - It's not testing your general internet speed. It's testing your speed to netflix's servers specifically. so when someone complained about buffering, netflix could say "run fast dot com." If it's slow, the ISP is the bottleneck.
suddenly millions of people had a tool to prove their ISP was the problem
ISPs couldn't hide anymore.
netflix positioned themselves as the transparent good guys fighting for customers while ISPs looked like greedy monopolies
they solved a pr problem and a customer service problem with one simple website
I guess, that's how you win a corporate war
I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
The most efficient business in the world makes ~$1.1B/yr net income with just 11 employees.
Their founder, Jeff Yan, is a ~30yo ex-HRT International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) gold & silver from Harvard.
It is a decentralized crypto derivatives exchange called Hyperliquid.