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What the fuck? Who is this person?
> Former Motorola exec and entrepreneur Numair Faraz
Aha, so I'm reading a propaganda piece by someone with financial incentive to... convince me to invest? convince me to not invest? I don't know, because I know whatever message it is, it's not to my advantage to read it, but to his advantage.
"everyone agreed on a solution: let the cat handle it. And so, for what seemed like an eternity, the cat went to work on the mouse, slowly torturing it limb-by-limb. This went on for at least a day, probably longer." Yikes. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Rich tech assholes. There was other hints earlier in the article, including negging his rich friends while simultaneously humble bragging about how rich his friends are.
The relationship between a mouse and food in a house is not symbiotic, whereas there is value provided in Stripe's "nibbling", if there wasn't the merchants would reject it, right?
Does the author have a follow-up post on "how not to be a mouse"? I think that might interesting, unless all "platforms" are fated to be mice?
This is true of basically all platforms, including every major cloud provider. AWS's playbook can be described as: 1. Provide low level infra 2. Observe what customers build on it 3. Create a general solution and charge a premium for it 4. Repeat, moving higher up the stack. Not to mention Amazon.com's "Basics" playbook of finding what sells, then knocking it off, releasing their own version (and ranking it higher fo…
This is true of basically all platforms, including every major cloud provider. AWS's playbook can be described as: 1. Provide low level infra 2. Observe what customers build on it 3. Create a general solution and charge a premium for it 4. Repeat, moving higher up the stack. Not to mention Amazon.com's "Basics" playbook of finding what sells, then knocking it off, releasing their own version (and ranking it higher fo…
To be a little fairer to AMZN, they didn't invent store brands. Every major big box retailer/supermarket does this.
"everyone agreed on a solution: let the cat handle it. And so, for what seemed like an eternity, the cat went to work on the mouse, slowly torturing it limb-by-limb. This went on for at least a day, probably longer." Yikes. What the hell is wrong with these people?
"everyone agreed on a solution: let the cat handle it. And so, for what seemed like an eternity, the cat went to work on the mouse, slowly torturing it limb-by-limb. This went on for at least a day, probably longer." Yikes. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Uh... not sure I want to learn from the perspective of someone who thinks torture -- literal torture -- is the solution to a problem, even if it's a mouse.