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>But I also know people and companies that were so nice and generous that people and customers learned to bleed them to figurative death. Are there examples an
by allemagne 9y ago
>But I also know people and companies that were so nice and generous that people and customers learned to bleed them to figurative death.
Are there examples an average person might've heard of?
- Retric 9y agoI suspect they just too die early. But, I can think of two tiny companies that failed due to that.
- avaer 9y agoUnfortunately these tend to be woven into tales of incompetence and failure, not being too nice. That's the bias. When you open your house to a haggard stranger (as my in-laws did) and they turn out to be fugitive that robs them (as their guest did), they were praised for their empathy but blamed for their naievity, and never made whole. In the corporate sphere this story appears as an abrupt shutdown when customers refuse to pay for the thing they have been accustomed to getting for free. In open source it looks like a popular project being abandoned because the maintainer has to grind elsewhere to pay the bills. You generally won't read feel-good blog posts about these. Once again, that's the bias.
- allemagne 9y agoThanks for the genuine response. I think I understand your point more clearly.