Marissa Mayer's Startup
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Sounds more fun than wireframeing another crud app with bootstrap css
E.g., I don’t want to create dashboards and other monitoring alerts in Datadog, just show me the real problems. A super slow query running once per day or a fast-enough query running 10x per second aren’t problems, which are the recommendations I get from these tools today.
I'll cross my fingers, but trusting a contacts managing app and allowing that risk should at least be a trade off for cool new tech. It seems like she wants a tiny Google-esque suite of products.
Too bad the design and marketing is not quite there.
I just have to pick out one comment from the article (which I can't vouch for one way or the other; it's just funny):
> She once told me that she felt confident in judging design because her mom was a grade school art teacher. Just saying.
Keep failing upwards Marissa.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
I actually think this function is the real reason it's so bad that Rehnquist kneecapped antitrust so badly in the 70's through 90's and we have a nation of oligopolies now. The oligopolies can exercise outsized market power and stay in existence for way longer than they would otherwise, which gives outsized and long lived returns to the idiotic offspring at the expense of pricing above marginal cost for society, which does harm us on every purchase via the higher price, but really harms us through keeping idiots in excess wealth that should have gone to some smart upstart, costing us decades of that upstart making wise choices.
He simply told me that he’d go crazy from boredom, and that the business was his life. He loved the work, his clients, his employees, everything about it.
The man was on his second heart-attack, pending divorce, but that’s what he loved doing.
He’s now in his mid 60s, and still doing the same. Some people are just made to work.
The people who would bail out and live on a beach are probably the kind of people who wouldn't have the success to do so. (I count myself amongst them.)
I wonder if he would think of it as some people just are made to play, which in his case happens to align with what others call work...hence the tens of millions.
Also, who’s to say she doesn’t “admit it”.
She can acknowledge her fortunate circumstances while still deciding she wants to spend her future building another company which may or may not succed
Truth be told, if you're all set in life - financially independent - and don't need to produce anything, it is incredibly easy to just become another dilettante.
Actually pursuing hobbies full time takes some serious discipline, because you really don't have any commitments - and can quit whenever you want, without any consequences whatsoever.
And, thus, for the vast majority - focusing on hobbies full-time can become a chore. You rarely (if ever) hear about retired rich people that become the very best in some field they see as their hobby.
At least with work, you have clients / customers. It's much easier to tell your boss "fuck you, I quit" once you have that kind of money - than to quit on your paying clients/customers.
Also, and this is just my observation, people seem to become (intellectually) duller real quick after they retire and don't do anything specific.