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Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

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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.

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

12 comments from Hacker News

@YjSe2GMQ2019-02 · in “What you need to know before you join a startup”

This comment is probably to be downvoted as off topic, but in case anyone missed this gem. Here Comes Another Bubble: ▶ this video

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@karpathy2012-04 · in “Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes”

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: ▶ this video from 2007 but still semi-relevant :)

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@nchuhoai2012-04 · in “All In: Now's The Time”

▶ this 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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@nostrademons2026-06 · in “AI Is Slowing Down”

They weren't wrong. We were in a tech bubble driven by social media. Digg, StumbleUpon, Kongregate, MySpace, Orkut, Slide, Meebo, Mahalo, Bebo, Justin.TV, etc. aren't exactly around anymore. Facebook and YouTube are the winners. Anyone remember this video? ▶ this video How many of the logos that scroll by there still exist?

@senko2026-02 · in “Time Is Different”

You may remember this video featuring Facebook with a ridiculously high $15B valuation, Skype, YouTube and other failures: ▶ this video