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> but it really seems like they’re on constant defense now and have a very tough lift to actually get something truly mass market

What about the metaverse ? :) Isn't it something not defensing and mass market ?

I feel like you are reproaching Meta to not do exactly what they do. They are having a massive innovative bet on how people will spend their time in the future.

And good luck selling enterprise software to Apple, Google and Facebook, they all already have some custom internal softwares for everything

I really struggle to believe all this thing. We have some inflation because of covid stimulus and Ukraine war, sure. So the fed is going to increase the rate, sure. And everyone is panicking at the same time so markets are falling. Poor people have less money because they need to pay for more expensive food but all the others still have money to invest, so I don't understand what it changes for vc ( except for the money they lost investing in crypto)

If we renamed "SPA" to "using a framework for the frontend" we may be able to stop having so many of these discussions. What is a "page" in an app like Tiktok ? Is Tiktok a SPA or just a single page with an app inside it ?

The Uber app alone would probably need much more than 30 developers, see here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346

At 4 saas b2b unicorns mostly between 5m and 50m arr.

+ interviews with people working in hr and culture at other ones.

And to give you more concrete data, the significant employees where :

1. The ceo founder (work hard play hard culture) b2b enterprise martech

2. The ceo founder + cto founder (chill + excellence culture) b2b enterprise productivity software

3. The ceo founder + vp of sales (micro management culture) b2b enterprise martech

4. The ceo founder ( chill + low expectation culture) b2b smb martech

You can be very talented and do a ton of work without having a bigger business impact than another person doing 50% less than you.

At the end whether you have a design system, if you have infinite scalability, if you use node or Ruby, having that feature or that other feature it doesn't matter. The only thing that matter is the revenue the company make.

If what matters was the people then ngo would be unicorns

> Surely many others were brilliant contributors to Stripe's becoming a $95B unicorn, and staying one, beyond just the Collison Brothers.

From my experience working at several saas unicorns, in each companies there was 2-3 max people who where responsible for the success of the company. It is not that all others were useless but they all could have been replaced easily without having any impact in the success of the company.

I know this is difficult to hear as an employee but this is the truth. 99% of us are replaceable.

In my opinion and experience, working with skilled and nice people VS working with stupid and coward people for example has only an impact on the happiness of the employees but has no link with company performance. (company culture has no impact on company performance)

When you leave something you have put so much effort in, and the future doesn't look good then you feel regret. When the future looks good you are usually proud.

But no, you don't feel pressure to build it again. Because first this is a lot of work and second it is not even likely that you will succeed again at it. Especially in b2c

Among the 900 a lot of them are drivers at the Bolt delivery company (So not the same one)

Github is not a competitor to Gitlab, they offer some similar services but overall it is not the same value proposition

It is also the exact same thing with text. Articles that are well written will be much more liked by readers

What's the point of being vc funded and profitable?

By definition if you are profitable you don't need external capital to exist and thus don't need vc money

> If I was a staff rider, I'd be putting that helmet on and telling Pedal Me to eat an OSHA-sized bag of dicks if they have a problem with it.

And then they would fire you and you will have to find a company that allow helmets and everyone will be happy

At my scale, I know that when I go mountain biking, when I have an helmet, I go faster and take much more risk than when I don't have an helmet. I don't have any data point about road biking, because I never wear a helmet. But thinking about it, I would also take more risks with more protective equipments

People who tell you that social tagging doesn't work would have tell you that Wikipedia can't work.

Social tagging can probably work but we haven't found a way yet

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29130017

The other way to look at it, is that if the company starts to give up a product-first market to an enterprise market it is because they are loosing or struggling to keep their customers in their first market and so they dont have the best product.

So as a customer if you want the best product then you have to switch

This is clearly not the enterprise playbook. The enterprise playbook is to sell on slides, iterate with a few customers and go after even bigger customers.

Start small and trying to go upmarket is the normal playbook for a b2b smb company that is not growing anymore. Managing enterprise customers is easier than managing thousands or small companies. And it also create a natural barrier to entry

Maybe not the the acquisition itself but for what it represents. If someone is willing to pay to acquire something that your built it is usually a proof that what you built is useful.

It makes 100% sense to be hungry while you are on diet. The opposite would be surprising.

But you are even hungry now that you are not on a diet. Do you prefer to be hungry and obese or be hungry and not be obese ? Not saying that it is just something that you can decide like that. But I would understand your point if you were not hungry now, but you say this is not the case.

But this is not true, it is not more sales that fix the problem it is more sales that are -successfully selling- that fix it.

I've seen companies where more sales has amplified the problem

EDIT: I use Sales as a shorthand for "Salespeople" but OP use Sales for "revenue" maybe ?

> 1. Few business problems can't be solved by more sales.

This obviously completely wrong. The only problem that can be solved by mores sales is when your are not selling enough. And even in this case just having more sales not always work.

I'm the first to say that what matter most for a company is its ability to have more customers. But having more sales when you sales org is badly structured will make you loose a lot of money. Same products problems won't be solved by more sales, same for Marketing problems, or People problems or actually any problem.

If you are in B2B Enterprise, just having a quarterly meeting with your customers vs having none can be the difference between a success and a failure for this customer.

All business are different, there is not one road to success, there are as many as successful companies. As a result non-contextual business advice is usually useless.

In B2B Enterprise also. Most companies fails not because they don't have a good product, but because they don't sell well enough

I have no proof, but it is probably with Youtube trying to compete with Tiktok. There are more originals content on Tiktok and on Tiktok any user can easily publish content.

So it would make sense that Youtube is trying to favor new creators and short videos. Actually a lot of Youtubers for a few months have been complaining, that the algo penalize channels that dont publish frequently.

I'm myself a big Youtube watcher, and I have not been seeing significant changes in the videos I see, there is more short videos, and videos from Tiktok reposted here but in my opinion it is just because more content of that kind is being published.

There is also a discovery problem on Youtube. They usually recommend you content that is close to the content you have seen recently (but it has always been like that). Once per week there is a truly original video that pops up.

It always baffles me that companies which struggle hiring, can take the decision to reject a candidate like him during the screening process ...

I think the author is struggling to explain his opinion.

VC is an outliers domain, a few outliers will define the success of your fund or not. As a result as IRR is annualized, it can gives you the impression that you are successful even though you are not. But actually IRR is a good metric especially for funds that invest in a lot of deals per year, because you can see if a fund is consistently performing over the years.

They do not give a single argument to show why they need to require 2FA, the same way they did not provide an argument for removing git password login. The more they will annoy users the more it will create space for a new service to compete with Github. Thanks Microsoft.

The biggest problem with Github in my opinion, is that personal accounts are usually the same as the one we use in the company we work for. So we are mixing personal and professional security

> The biggest risk that this company has is that Cloudflare (in all reality) should just buy them or reimplement it. It’s the type of product cloudflare would make, that’s for sure.

The same thing is being said on HN about all kind of network software, but tell me one software that Cloudflare is really known for except its cdn ? None.

HN is really a strong echo chamber and some people believe Cloudflare and Stripe are going to be the leader in all software areas. (Even though Cloudflare is not the leading CDN and Stripe is not the leading payment processor). They are both amazing companies but they won't fix all problems of the world. I would even argue that they won't even solve more than their current core domains

> was a team with great empathy and values, and a true desire to make this an acquisition that served all the human constituents as best as possible.

Every acquisition announcement almost paint the acquirer as an amazing company, that care deeply about the mission of the acquired company and that is aligned with its vision. But 99% of the time it is false.

This is especially false when the founders don't even stay in the company. We should allow founders to say "We sold the company to get money and do something else, we hope the acquiring company will take great care of our customers"