The concerns others levied against HOTorNOT were ones the founders themselves wrestled with at first
The HOTorNOT craze also amazed their Silicon Valley friends because Young and Hong were one of the first web engineers to get some social cache and fame from outside of their insular tech-nerd circles.
“Being a Silicon Valley founder definitely wasn’t cool then. “But they had tapped into a pretty mainstream audience. They were like mini-celebrities in a world where there weren’t a lot of celebrities created via the internet.”
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