edw519 on Skinny fat founder strips for launch of startup

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Impressive, but who wants to look at some half naked dude when you could look at this:

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  |         BEFORE          |  |          AFTER          |
  |                         |  |                         |
  |   Lines of Code: 33,467 |  |   Lines of Code: 11,261 |
  |        Bug Rate: .037%  |  |        Bug Rate: .013%  |
  |  Daily visitors: 13,239 |  |  Daily visitors: 59,283 |
  | Conversion rate: 3.2%   |  | Conversion rate: 6.9%   |
  |   Daily revenue: $3,932 |  |   Daily revenue: $9,321 |
  |   HN Front Page: 0      |  |   HN Front Page: 22     |
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ericflo 14y

I don't understand the relevance, can you please provide some context?

tptacek 14y

"We're all entrepreneurs here and we all know what actually matters, so if you had just told us about your business and what you did to grow it, you could have skipped the half naked picture."

Which, agreed.

ericflo 14y

Fair enough. The thing is though, he posted it on the BodyHack blog. We may all be entrepreneurs here, but are all of their readers? I'd be cautious in judging him too much.

tptacek 14y

That is a very good point. Thank you.

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