There is something I never liked about Crapcenture - it's corporate culture is so weird and almost cult-like. There is no doubt they are successful but I question whether that model should even exist in the first place.
Accenture to acquire Ookla
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#142I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…
Thank you for your service ( the product was/is -- haven't used in a while -- useful ).
I think this is the part that people do not appreciate. Sometimes it genuinely it is not the difficulty of the task from a pure programming perspective, but 1) getting the users and 2) getting people to pay for the service and 3) getting the right people to sign off on that.
It is very similar in banking. The products themselves are not super hard ( though the challenges are real ), buy just getting to talk to the right people is a hassle.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but it took me 18 years to grow the user base , figure out entreprise sales strategy and exit. The audience here has never wanted to admit that the codebase doesn't really matter. Now that codebases can be created in a weekend, people are opening their eyes to this sentiment - the hard part is the sales, the code is easy.
Most of them can't. It's just a few products like speed testers and social media that are at least surface level easy. You can't vibe code up a triple A quality game in a weekend.
To be fair, triple A gaming lately has been something of a letdown. That does not invalidate your point exactly, but it does mean that the tastes of the gaming audience might be changing ( we kinda were in similar spots before ).
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#145May it fail and take Accenture with them.
Accenture is more resilient than cockroaches.
Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla
#146I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…
ISP seems to give higher network priority to Ookla so I'm not sure how useful it is compared to actual experience.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the codebase doesn't really matter Sigh. I’m sure the viewpoint from being in mergers and acquisitions is quite different (and to me, often comes across as quite callow). I’ve been a software developer for 35 years (closer to 45 if you include my pre-professional life, aka adolescence) and have deliberately stayed “on the tools” in my career with working in codebases and product development as I’ve found that is wh…
Your argument is sound. It certainly takes a good deal of skill to create good code. And yes, good code makes it easier to create a better product. And yes it's easier to build a better company on a better product. But history is littered with "worse products" that won in the marketplace. It turns out that all the attributes you name are helpful but not necessary . Good marketing trumps good product. We see this over…
Sigh.
Bless your heart.
Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla
#149I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…
Huh, interesting, I thought ISP would get enough metrics from their own devices
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