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It's not easy to balance between the needs of your stakeholders (investors/owners etc) and the needs of your actual users. I imagine that many companies experi
by lubonay 7y ago
It's not easy to balance between the needs of your stakeholders (investors/owners etc) and the needs of your actual users.
I imagine that many companies experience a sort of death spiral once they start focusing too much on profit/growth/monetization at the expense of actually catering to their users' needs.
On the other extreme, focusing too much on users and not enough on profit probably isn't a good way to remain in business for long...
- patio-chill 7y agoThey have def given up their regular users in this point. Ads thing shared here is one item recently. Also think they can re license my content without asking (below): https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchange-and-stack-overflow-are-moving-to-cc-by-sa-4-0 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan... Plenty of other stuff in past year or two... (below): I shared it but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053475