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'imagine if you could fork Amazon and launch a direct competitor'
..you've lost me. Amazon is not a code base. It has over 500,000 employees who work hard to serve its customers. How do you fork that?
I would offer another, better example but I can't think of one. Web 2.0 companies are so far ahead that web 3.0 is going to have to come up with something completely different to be commercially interesting.
I also see a major extrovert bias, which might seem a little funny for tech.
But, again, product managers (or, God forbid, Sales people) are all really subject to the “let’s just get some people in a room” style of planning and problem resolution.
I firmly believe some massive amount of productivity is squandered from people choosing the wrong communication paradigm.
The diagram was submitted as an entry for martech.com's 'stackies' award - and is worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to know which marketing technologies the big guys are using.
Q: Do you really think Uber is going to collapse or be bought up by another company?
A: Look , I don’t have the internal numbers to – I’m not like . . . the hedge fund guy, Jim Chanos, who shorted Enron. He had lots of research and researched this stuff. . . . Let’s put it this way: I’m shorting Uber.
Ah well!
If all you do is sing from the same hymn sheet all the time, you're going to get the same song </strained analogy>
Note non-PC fellow in upper right - "I heard it was crawling with headhunters"!
There are only 50-70 million WeChat users outside of China in total - according to WeChat themselves. http://bit.ly/2bUmiBE
We also check our bottles regularly and replace the corks every 25-30 years, which gives us an opportunity to monitor the quality of the wine.
---- Presumably they are checking its 'drinkability' among its other qualities!