THE VIDEO SHELF · startup bubble satire
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Resurfaces in threads on startups, valuations and hype cycles as a funny, prescient bubble satire.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TheRichterScales
- Topic
- startup bubble satire
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
karpathy on Hacker News · 2012-04
In Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes[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 …
nchuhoai on Hacker News · 2012-04
In All In: Now's The TimeThis comment is probably to be downvoted as off topic, but in case anyone missed this gem. Here Comes Another Bubble: [VIDEO]
YjSe2GMQ on Hacker News · 2019-02
In What you need to know before you join a startup
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.