It kind of looks like Quibi to me, it's obvious that it's not going to be a big hit or maybe even be around in a year. (It was also obvious to me that Snapchat was going to fail, so what do I know?)
It kind of looks like Quibi to me, it's obvious that it's not going to be a big hit or maybe even be around in a year. (It was also obvious to me that Snapchat was going to fail, so what do I know?)
What I mean by "normal process of growth" is if you look at some of the established tech companies like Dropbox or Facebook (just two off the top of my head), you see that they all had relatively humble beginnings and grew into the companies they are today. With Clubhouse and to a larger extent Quibi, it seemed like these companies are all attempting this corporate experiment where with millions/billions of dollars, you can theoretically shortcut the "humble beginnings" part and go straight to an org with all the trappings of a large company.
So far it seems that it doesn't really work and one problem seems to be is when you go down the normal process of growth, you grow your company around your product or service and that product or service gets better over time (theoretically). The issue i see with all these companies that try to shortcut the process is that while they look to be a well established company from the org chart, their product is still infantile. And IMO unlike shortcutting the process to company growth, you can't really shortcut the process to product growth, because a big part of that process is responding to feedback from users and how the market in general is responding to your product/service, and that just can't be compressed down, no matter how much money you throw at the problem.
And this is where the companies inevitably fail. Because they shortcutted the "org maturity" part and not the "product maturity" part, their massive burn on everything from legal to marketing become unsustainable given how infantile their product is, and the companies either fold or slog on once the marketing dollars have dried up until they too fold or are acquired.