Panelist: "Would your vision eventually, this disruption, take over internal teams working on these problems."
CEO: "Our vision is we're going to power the Internet. [Dead serious face and stare]."
Video in the article. Amazing vision and execution.
:-p
But it really was how we thought about what we were doing from day one. Our litmus test was always: “If we ran the Internet, would this be the right decision?” Asked that for every technical, business, and policy/legal question we faced. Seemed absurd when it was 8 of us over a nail salon in Palo Alto, but led to a lot of good decisions and long-term thinking.
I just found about Durable Objects and can't wait to try them on a new project for a client that has a use case like: few days per year has a huge traffic spike (tens of thousands concurrent users) while the rest of the year is pretty much dead. I think DOs could be a perfect fit for this.
Cheers and let's hope for another 10 great years, :D.
Shows the immaturity in the analysis of stratechery in my opinion.
I agree the journey probably wasn’t as 0 or 1 as my comment makes it seem.
But in all seriousness, it’s okay to relax a little, not to be negative, and concede some things to be inspired.