Regardless of how frivolous non-metahuman Zodon’s “internet start-ups” might sound, creating a successful one is non-trivial. There’s a significant amount of talent and inspiration that has to go into coming up with a concept that will “take off,” and there’s plenty of work that goes into establishing the business side of it. Like any kind of company, “internet start-ups” often fail.
The point being, if he’s highly wealthy from creating multiple start-ups and selling them when he gets bored, he’s incredibly talented at building a customer base and capturing the attention of an audience.
The littler kid earning $23,000 on one youtube lolcat vid? That’s frankly astonishing. (But well within the level of “believable” in a comic about meta-human children.)
Still, if it were truly EASY, everybody would be an internet millionaire. 😉
(And yeah, I know nobody’s said otherwise, but when comparing super-genius Zodon to “normal” Zodon, it’s worth keeping in mind that “normal” Zodon has done something probably less than 1% of the first world is able to do, and done it successfully multiple times.)
It also indicates that this Zodon is also a technical genius, just a more, er, mundane one. One of the things I hope gets addressed in the next book is if MetaZodon takes the hint and starts working on a legitimate revenue stream to fund his activities.
Then again, considering what he does to the laws of physics, I’m scared to think of what he’ll do to the tax code.
Where is this magical land of alternate omaha where internet access grants you magical powers and childhood dreams come true and every visionary is a billionaire and contractors work for pennies on the dollar?
Last time I saw omaha in a picture it was all prairie, fields of grain, dirt roads, and soybeans. Not silicon valley.
You joke, but plenty of programmers are working out of the Midwest these days. California is taxing them out of the Silicon Valley, so they’re following Gateway and Dell to the plains.
Who said contractors work for pennies on the dollar? We don’t know just HOW fabulously wealthy altZodon is; maybe contractors are ludicrously expensive but he can just afford it anyway.
This just shows that Zodon would always be a sarcastic overachiever, mundane or super. And the mundane one has eager minions and a friend and more effective power, so I kind of hope that seed sinks in.
A KITTY!!!!!!!!!!11111!
Why conquer the world when you can make tons of money selling consumable media? All of the perks, none of the hassle.
Kitty! Playing with a pingpong ball! I wanna see it too!!!!!!
Regardless of how frivolous non-metahuman Zodon’s “internet start-ups” might sound, creating a successful one is non-trivial. There’s a significant amount of talent and inspiration that has to go into coming up with a concept that will “take off,” and there’s plenty of work that goes into establishing the business side of it. Like any kind of company, “internet start-ups” often fail.
The point being, if he’s highly wealthy from creating multiple start-ups and selling them when he gets bored, he’s incredibly talented at building a customer base and capturing the attention of an audience.
The littler kid earning $23,000 on one youtube lolcat vid? That’s frankly astonishing. (But well within the level of “believable” in a comic about meta-human children.)
Still, if it were truly EASY, everybody would be an internet millionaire. 😉
(And yeah, I know nobody’s said otherwise, but when comparing super-genius Zodon to “normal” Zodon, it’s worth keeping in mind that “normal” Zodon has done something probably less than 1% of the first world is able to do, and done it successfully multiple times.)
It also indicates that this Zodon is also a technical genius, just a more, er, mundane one. One of the things I hope gets addressed in the next book is if MetaZodon takes the hint and starts working on a legitimate revenue stream to fund his activities.
Then again, considering what he does to the laws of physics, I’m scared to think of what he’ll do to the tax code.
Let’s be honest: the tax code has it coming.
So that’s where Ambriel got the eyepiece in the banner.
Where is this magical land of alternate omaha where internet access grants you magical powers and childhood dreams come true and every visionary is a billionaire and contractors work for pennies on the dollar?
Last time I saw omaha in a picture it was all prairie, fields of grain, dirt roads, and soybeans. Not silicon valley.
You joke, but plenty of programmers are working out of the Midwest these days. California is taxing them out of the Silicon Valley, so they’re following Gateway and Dell to the plains.
Who said contractors work for pennies on the dollar? We don’t know just HOW fabulously wealthy altZodon is; maybe contractors are ludicrously expensive but he can just afford it anyway.
This just shows that Zodon would always be a sarcastic overachiever, mundane or super. And the mundane one has eager minions and a friend and more effective power, so I kind of hope that seed sinks in.
Revenant DID say piles of money were practically a superpower.. So alt-Zodon is very high percentile in two areas here.