Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
TheRichterScales3 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2009–2026
music · general · evergreen · 2009–2026 on HN
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.
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12 comments from Hacker News
This comment is probably to be downvoted as off topic, but in case anyone missed this gem. Here Comes Another Bubble: ▶ this video
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 :)
▶ 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.
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?
You may remember this video featuring Facebook with a ridiculously high $15B valuation, Skype, YouTube and other failures: ▶ this video
It may come back to be relevant "Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales" but some lingo needs update (but other parts are still spot on). ▶ this video
Per The Richter Scales, 17 frickin' years ago: Hire yourself an engineer, Feed him pizza, buy him beer, Give him just a fraction of a fraction of the pie. ▶ this video Let's face it folks, the party was doomed to only last a short while before the managerial class took over.
Of course it is. FTX collapses (November 2-11, 2022), crypto hustle-scam is over, the decision is made to release whatever there is at the moment at OpenAI to start the next cycle, a few weeks later (November 30, 2022) there we go. Same thing as always: some investors -- mostly white males -- get filthy rich meanwhile some others get exploited -- this time it's Kenyan workers -- and many, many people get hoodwinked and then lose their shirt. Same story, different hype. ▶ this video did everyone forget? I guess. At we got something out of web2.0 ... but we also got a genocide and a few warped elections / referendums out of it so the jury is still out how history will see it. Crypto was a net negative for humankind in every possible way (except a few people walked away with tons of money of course but at what cost) and now we are facing down this terrible wave of AI. Yay?
Or, from 2007, The Richter Scales - "Here Comes Another Bubble": ▶ this video "build yourself a rocket ship / blast off on an ego trip" – lmao
Longer. This Richter Scales "Here comes another bubble" video was 2007. ▶ this video Obviously 2008 did see something of a drop in general so I guess they were right for the near term. But they were specifically ragging on companies that you'd have done very well with over the next decade+ even if you had bought in 2007.
The article is from oct 2007(*fixed), around the same time of the video: "Here comes another bubble" ▶ this video
make yourself a million bucks partly skill, mostly luck now you can afford a down payment on a small house ▶ this video