What happened instead was worse, but better: someone got the ball rolling with a one-line definition: "Asphalt is a material used for road coverings," and others improved it from there. But it never would have gotten off the ground if someone had attempted all that while writing the first version of the page. “People will say 'this is horrible, anyone could make this better.' That's what happened with Wikipedia." As a prime example, he cites the article for ' Asphalt.' Today it's an elaborate resource full of interesting technical information and history. “You just have to get something out there,” Lehman says. What does this mean in practice? Lehman, like the website he co-founded five years ago, is only too happy to explain.
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“Only in its sucking could it have taught me the secret of how to build things on the internet, and that secret is ‘ worse is better.’” “The first version of Rap Genius was really bad - it sucked, and I’m glad it sucked,” he says. So of course, we had to have him speak at First Round’s last Design+ Conference, where he shared the three words that made Rap Genius possible, then and now. That first day, breaking down the meaning of “ Killa Cam” by Cam’ron, Lehman designed and implemented what are still the site’s most-used features. It took less than six hours to build something that now attracts 40 million new users a month, raised $17 million in VC funding, and very recently stirred up and survived an internet-wide controversy (which may only make it more popular). the same day, he finished the first version of the site.
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on August 19, 2009, Tom Lehman entered the first line of code that would eventually become Rap Genius.
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