Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

TheRichterScales · 1.2M views · 2007-12-18 · 2:46

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Overview

A cappella parody song by The Richter Scales, set to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire', lampooning the Web 2.0 startup bubble. It won a Webby for viral video in 2007.

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Resurfaces in threads on startups, valuations and hype cycles as a funny, prescient bubble satire.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2009–2026

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Satire & parody Music performance & songs Tech industry & business models

What people said

YjSe2GMQ · 2019-02 · Recommendation
This comment is probably to be downvoted as off topic, but in case anyone missed this gem. Here Comes Another Bubble: [VIDEO]
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karpathy · 2012-04 · Recommendation
I'm auditing the class as well and I like it quite a lot. Make sure to not get TLDR discouraged and at least scroll all the way down for the (very amusing) video that was played in class. Direct link: [VIDEO] from 2007 but still semi-relevant :)
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nchuhoai · 2012-04 · Recommendation
[VIDEO] Always appropriate. On a side note, really hard to know whether this is a bubble or not. I don't want to take either side, but you cannot refute that a billion dollars for a startup that did not gain any significant revenue seems like a lot of money.
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