Err. Id consider a 1m+ offer if I were him. With explosion of tlds and AI making the domain name less relevant (you ask AI and click its link) it will probably depreciate and better to grab $$$ and invest elsewhere.
Not on the same scale as AI, but my first ever AirBnB host still owns harley.com. He made his money writing "The Yellow Pages of the Internet" physical books and had turned down numerous lucrative offers from Harley Davidson.
Really fascinating and quirky guy as you can probably infer from the site.
Artificial Insemination is a massive global industrial SaaS (Sperm as as Service), one of the few sectors that can literally make its customers' clients come and deliver!
The instacart button is kind of crazy. I'll casually watch videos and when something looks good, I can have the ingredients to make it delivered within the hour.
when you have an "unlimited" access to food, you have to have self imposed scarcity to eat the diet that our bodies are designed to intake. It doesn't help that there is weaponized fat, salt, and corn in colorful bags everywhere you look.
I wonder how aggressively this would be enforced. Like, if this website let people place an order a year in advance for a specific price, would the regulators come knocking?
Very interesting page, left me with a lot of mixed feelings after I read it. First, it seems like the biggest issue was not onion futures per se, but manipulating the market. It seems like banning onion futures was just a band-aid while ignoring the true cause. Second, if it really is the case that onions' perishable nature caused the problem, why not at least extend the ban to all similarly perishable products? Again it seems like they attacked the symptom rather than the root cause. But those criticisms aside, I kind of love that the government back then was willing to shut down shady money making schemes from finance bros. That would never happen in America today, so that part was pretty cool.
