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Your comment here and your linked comment address different concerns to me. Your 2015 comment was security/privacy focused and i believe appropriately so. Your
by liquidise 8y ago
Your comment here and your linked comment address different concerns to me. Your 2015 comment was security/privacy focused and i believe appropriately so. Your comment today surprises me. I'd argue that "tech for non-tech people" accurately describes most successful businesses outside of devops-focused SaaS in the last 5 years. Heck i'd argue slack is "tech for non-tech people"
Granted i know little about Blockspring, but no funding events in 3.5 years after a 3.5MM round with 11-50 employees[1] sounds like financial traction to me. Maintaining a < $1M burn for over 3 years with > 10 employees isn't easy. And such napkin math assumes they sold while staring down impending bankruptcy. Possible, but its a tale rife with speculation.
1: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blockspring https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blockspring
- minimaxir 8y ago> I'd argue that "tech for non-tech people" accurately describes most successful businesses outside of devops-focused SaaS in the last 5 years. Heck i'd argue slack is "tech for non-tech people" To clarify, I was more against the "killing of spreadsheets" the linked a16z article mentioned as it seemed to offer a solution that was more complicated than the problem it solves. You do have a point about SaaSes making things easier for nontech people. Airtable, for example, expanded on spreadsheets to make them better and playing to their strengths, instead of trying to kill them.