New Hippo Techie – The next Instagram

My publisher turned to me the other day and asked, “Why can’t you come up with something I can invest in that Facebook will buy for a billion dollars?” That’s not an exact quote; newspaper folk tend to curse a lot in casual conversation.

With my publisher’s entreaty in mind — and ignoring the fact that wacky ideas with no real plan for making money other than being bought out were a big part of the dotcom bubble — I came up with a few ideas for blockbuster companies.

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