Rob Walling

get the eyeballs and they say stuff like this, that is it really like you have to do this?

Have our growth expectations changed forever is what he tweets.

And look, I get it.

You're listening to this podcast.

You don't really care about venture capital.

You're not going to raise venture capital.

So why does this impact you?

The point is, be really aware of who you're listening to.

There is probably half the tweets that I see in any given day.

I think to myself, that's not true.

I'm

Like you're either lying to yourself or you're lying to me by posting this, you know.

And you're going to be rewarded for it, of course, because it's an outlandish take.

And this is one of the most frustrating parts for social media that I've experienced is that the folks who do the clickbaity bullshit to either get people mad or to say outlandish things to get attention are the ones who get rewarded with these audiences on social media.

Back in the day, a little bit about blogging was to have a crazy headline writer to get some attention.

But really earning that audience by writing a meaty piece that you thought through, it was so much harder to be lazy, right?

Because you had to put in work to write a...

1,000, 2,000, 3,000 word blog posts.

You look at Jason Cohen back in the day, myself, Patrick McKenzie, Pell DeGilzoni.

There's a bunch of folks who were bloggers back in the day in the entrepreneur space, even like Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky.