> Mass publishing is more useful and valuable the more people you can publish to at once.
Absolutely, but that was happening long before the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc., came around to monetize it and convince people that they are the only ways to do it. They're cultural parasites.
Mass publishing is more useful and valuable the more people you can publish to at once.
It has nothing to do with VC. "Don't pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel" long predates vulture capitalists.