312: What’s Better: A Starving Artist? Or A Fat Artist?

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Fat Artists

What happens when a founder/leader gets tired of their main product and decides to take on a  secondary product? For the second product, they’re no longer starving artist, but a fat artist. Does massive amounts of money and people help? We discuss this idea in this week’s podcast with many examples.

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Fat Artist Show Notes

Why the ‘end of the startup era’ could be great for entrepreneurs by Joseph Flaherty, TechCrunch

Spiegel: Snap -> Spectacles
Snap’s ‘shockingly low’ internal data reveals why its Spectacles glasses flopped by Alex Heath, Business Insider

Twitter -> Vine, Periscope, Square?

Zuckerberg: Facebook -> Oculus
Grandma Is Adorably Nervous She’s Going To Fall Off A Ledge While Wearing A VR Headset via Digg

Bezos: Amazon -> Whole Foods, Washington Post, Blue Origin

Cue: Apple -> TV Shows
Apple’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Hollywood Is the Opposite of Edgy by Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg Businessweek

Musk: Paypal -> Tesla, Spacex, Solarcity, Boring Company

Brin: Google -> Alphabet: Cars, Glasses, Balloons
I Went for a Ride in a Waymo Self-Driving Car, Which Was Surprisingly Chill by Kate Conger, Gizmodo