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> A whole generation is being trained to sell their companies as quickly as possible - rather than doing any actual work to nurture them Reads like a 'knee-jer
by sean_patel 10y ago
> A whole generation is being trained to sell their companies as quickly as possible - rather than doing any actual work to nurture them
Reads like a 'knee-jerk' reaction rant to a changing world. The (financial) rewards are going from 'build it to last' to 'work your connections to get funding and work your other connections to sell and exit ASAP'.
Neither approach is the 'right way' or 'wrong way', but I see this situation more as something in the lines of 'this is how the tech / startup landscape has turned into, so go with the flow or get burned'.
Thoughts anyone?
- theonemind 10y agoI see "build it to last" as better for society at large. Steve Jobs, for example, believed in the importance of putting things back into the stream of human consciousness and built Apple. They didn't build it to sell.
- olewhalehunter 10y ago>They didn't build it to sell. except they totally did people and businesses had no intention of actually pulling paper-based systems into computational ones, and thus all Steve Jobs had to do was reproduce office-quality typography and document presentation on a screen, selling 1870s typewriter workflows as innovation well enough to convince the world they were revolutionary
- gaius 10y agoSelling the company vs selling the product, you have mixed up
- throwaway2016a 10y agoI think he meant exiting/selling to a larger company not selling as in sales and marketing.
- DonHopkins 10y agoIn the timeless words of the great Bruce Tognazzini [1]: MEVSGP MPIZ JBKQSI DBAPH TLUM XFEA HRBH CNUDNT PZIZDK VZOPZW DX. TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT IS THE GZINCLE FLORTEN GLOFFLE. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SO CLOSE.... SO VERY CLOSE.... PERHAPS WITH JUST A FEW MORE MONKEYS........ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMDWhc_ohU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMDWhc_ohU
- sean_patel 10y agoLove this. Just saw the video. So is it true that real monkeys in the jungle stepped on the typewriter keys and this genius quote came out of 1 of them??? Fascinating!!!
- madgar 10y agoI don't think entrepreneurs can be expected to have much consideration for society at large except as legally required. Why would they do somebody else's job? Their job is so dang hard as it is.