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Aug 14, 2015·1 min read

Things that don’t make money are hard for commercial enterprises to do.

Ev Williams

CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas

… investigation — don’t scale and don’t make money. So, we see sites cutting back on those things but instead of saying “These things don’t make us money.” they say “These things are very hard to do.”

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