You’re transported back to 1994 with all your current knowledge and $50,000. Your goal is to create the world’s biggest online shopping company.

How do you go about it?

As a further thought experiment, if you travelled back to 1960 with all your current knowledge and the goal of becoming the richest person on earth, what businesses would you start?

  • jreashville@alien.top
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    1960 you’d either want to start an oil company to take advantage of the growing auto industry/car dependency, or you’d want to get an early start on a computer company, sell to NASA during the space race and use that publicity to advertise home computers.

    In 1994, I think I’d start a business similar to shipt. That way you can sell stuff directly to peoples doors without having to invest in inventory or warehouse space.