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Eh. Smart guy as always, but I read anything on company building/management by unicorn startups with a large degree of skepticism. Basically, if you have a grea
by rajacombinator 8y ago
Eh. Smart guy as always, but I read anything on company building/management by unicorn startups with a large degree of skepticism. Basically, if you have a great product, and then exercise some moderate degree of thoughtfulness in company building and hiring, everything will work itself out. Every tech unicorn loves to preen about their culture, etc, but they’re all driven by incredibly strong near-monopoly products. They would have to actively try to screw things up.
- ta1234567890 8y agoBuilding any type of company requires a huge amount of active effort from many different people. The idea that a great product will make and grow a company by itself is basically engineering fantasy. In the case of Stripe, they've worked their asses off not just building the product, but also raising a ton of money which in turn they used to market the crap out of their product. Without that money and the marketing, even with the same product, Stripe would have most likely already failed.