thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

491 EXTRA Solving The Problem Of Supply & Demand


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In sales at 1. so I was an engineer. And there was a period of time where I was working for a web design company.


I had people working for me who was coding. But I really love the United States I want to stay here so so what can you do how can you how can you help me stay here and they said well you can keep your current job but you also have to do sales you have to sell as well and I'm like I don't know anything about sales how the hell am I gonna sell I have no idea how to sell and I ended up actually doing quite well a bundled into it I guess was like a beginner's mind sort of thing I went to all my friends and and I talked to him I said Hey listen to you on the web one of my website I mean everybody's web design services and it turns out that I got it a bunch of business and actually did quite well in the business and but it was my exposure to sales and I thought to myself man sales really sucks it's really really hard it's really really hard so I thought to myself this could be a better way to do this and if you look at all the steals messages were bombarded with day after day after day after day yeah there's billions of messages on the internet that are all sales related it's a. So that's why we get pelted by these messages that are missed the target, so I thought to myself, I'm an engineer; there are engineers out there why can't we figure out a better way to match up the supply-demand why can't we match up the buyers and the sellers in some kind of market where buyers and the sellers are matched together I mean if you think about it we know everything there is to know about everybody nowadays I mean we could just go into their browser history or or or look at their it looks at their trails right the internet we get a pretty good idea of what people want.

So why is it that we get a pretty good idea people want? Shredding the internet, I mean some people might say, well people don't really know what they want, but I would suggest that maybe people don't know what they want. And I think myself why we have done this? If we haven't done this, we should probably do it, so if you're out there and you're thinking about building a startup, this would be a great area to work in. Some people may say, well, you know people are too ingrained in the system the way it is, we're not gonna be able to break this thing up.

In fact, if you think about it, maybe some of the big tech companies actually make money based on the mismatch, the more with even if it's a close match people so click on things they still make money on the mismatch so maybe people are making money on the mismatch maybe there are huge industries maps to the mix match. If you ask me, that's not a very good experience for the end-user the end customer for the regular human being who wants to buy something they should be able to be optimally matched to a seller at the right moment, in fact, there's no internet demand engine but even if we tried everyone who's tried to building an internet demand engine that fails because every time you put it demanded that the man engine all they do is they cover you with sales messages and that's the last thing people want we need to build some kind of an engine which optimally matches buyers and sellers at the moment they need to be matched once we have this then we can reduce the 99.9 percent of junk it's on the internet wouldn't that be a great thing wouldn't you like to see them clean and clear internet devoid of sales messages or at least.

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