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Joe Pompliano
Personal blog · huddleup.substack.combusinessculture
Joe Pompliano writes Huddle Up, a personal blog at huddleup.substack.com about business and culture. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for business and sports money stories, such as a post on two brothers who receive a share of NBA television revenue without owning a team. The comments give no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daily essays breaking down the business and money behind sports.
Most-linked posts?
- How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-08
What Hacker News says?
> I believe this is a very flawed way of thinking that misunderstands why companies actually pay for software services. What you have described is essentially to hire an AI to provide the service. Our current LLM-based systems are not capable of this and probably won't be with the currently used technology. Software services is not the code. The code is frankly the least important part. I think you are mistaken. You…
Comment linking /p/the-savannah-bananas-just-cost-resellers
on “Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons”Submitted Tour de France: How the Most Challenging Race Became a $100M Business as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThere's two brothers out there who don't own an NBA team, never did, but nonetheless receive something like 1/7 of a team's share of television revenue every year. Pretty sweet deal. https://huddleup.substack.com/p/the-greatest-business-deal-i... OK the NBA finally bought them out a while back -- total take, $800 million.
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on “Hasn't played in MLB for over two decades, gets $1.2M a year until 2035”Submitted Manchester United's Billion Dollar Problem as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Multi-Million-Dollar Financials Behind a Kentucky Derby Winning Horse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steroids, Science, and $1M Payouts: Inside the Enhanced Games as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Logistics of Formula 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tennis Tournament in Queens Generates $500M in Annual Revenue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Mount Everest Became A Huge (And Dangerous) Business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Details Behind David Beckham’s MLS Contract That Earned $500M as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Down Wimbledon's $350M Business as a story · 1 points
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