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Not to rain on his parade too much, but a lot (most?) of his "Five years ago..." statements just aren't true. Most of the ideas he says didn't exist or where "
by jlarocco 11y ago
Not to rain on his parade too much, but a lot (most?) of his "Five years ago..." statements just aren't true. Most of the ideas he says didn't exist or where "heretical" five years ago were definitely around. More of them would be true if he said 15 years ago, but even then a few of them weren't new ideas.
Or maybe he implicitly meant "... at Etsy." in which case he may be 100% correct.
- vinceguidry 11y agoI wouldn't word it so dismissively as your last comment does. Doing things that work well in small settings at scale is really hard. Ideas that work perfectly well in small settings break down terribly when you try to organize a large company around them.
- jlarocco 11y agoNo offense, but Etsy isn't a large company by most measures. And besides that, some of the things in his list were already popular at companies a lot larger than Etsy five years ago. I'm not saying he didn't do good work at Etsy, but I think he's giving himself too much credit for some of it. It's not as groundbreaking as he's making it out.