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I think fundamentally Jason's advice works for the business of selling web apps. And scott's got it all mixed up with general business practices of large corporations.

Jason is a romantic when it comes to what worked for him and he is preaching it to the world. Scott just can't handle the fact that preaching still works.

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I really think this has more to do with the way that insta- 50-person post-A-round enterprise software startups work. They really do start with a small pouch of powder, which, when sprinkled over water, blossoms into a company with a 1/10 shot of getting acquired for 2x investment dollars in a couple years.

It's probably really frustrating that all you have control over is the flavor of that powder. Maybe that's why Olson is so angry. Or maybe something bad happened to him in the Chicago parks. Some of them do get pretty iffy at night.

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