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London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

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Re: London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

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Ideas are utterly worthless. Execution is everything. I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) I've ever had away for free. Because I know if someone is better at implementing it than I am, they are the ones who provided the world value. Not me for dreaming it up and then doing nothing about it - there are millions of me's, and ideas without execution are not interesting.

>Ideas are utterly worthless. >I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) A solid contradiction ;) But I understand your intentions.

Ha. Good point :)

Re: London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

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Honestly, I don't care whether I am driven over by a Porsche Cayenne or a Willys MB. And while I have not worked in the banking sector myself, lots of my friends did - and it was not cobol. They are catching up and they all know that their mainframe sw is dated and act upon it. I don't think the "quality" of the tech is of any relevance here. EDIT: Well, I actually know some guys who bit the bullet and learned cobol…

I'd have 100% more trust in a system written in COBOL than node.js.

But it is currently maintained by the new nodejs devs who figured maintaining COBOL pays greater.
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