It's pretty insane to use the word "fail" in the same sentence with Trello. Is "Why Amazon failed to build a 10 trillion dollar business" next?
Agreed. It's a very skewed perspective that treats $425 million as a failure.
Why Trello failed to build a $1B business
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to use Jira at work, and cannot tell you how much happier I'd be if we could move to Trello.
The grass is always greener. Trello is so awful as a bug/issue tracker I'd love to be using JIRA.
In Jira you can't even read the issue because half of the screen is occupied with navs or borders.
This is more or less how it looks on a full-screen Retina 15" Macbook Pro: http://pcgen.org/autobuilds/pcgen-docs/images/jira/jira_04.p...
Re: Why Trello failed to build a $1B business
#23I'd like to know how many $1B businesses has the author built.
This is unfairly dismissive. The author recognizes Trello's success [0] and is sharing his thoughts. Is there something in particular he said that you disagree with?
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>Hindsight, of course, is 20/20. While I’ve spent most of this post talking about Trello’s missed opportunity, we shouldn’t forget that building a SaaS business that’s worth over $10M, let alone one that’s worth $425M, is a huge accomplishment.
Re: Why Trello failed to build a $1B business
#24> From the article: “We see Trello as a feature, not a product.” That's pretty much the answer. In this case it wasn't a horizontal/vertical issue, simply that the feature was easily added by other, more comprehensive platforms.
I agree with this. Trello could have added a lot more features, gone for Enterprise, but it would then have no longer been Trello.