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It's kinda funny how their CEO writes on Twitter all the time that they are the best company in the world, with the best product, do most innovations in tech et
by risyachka 5y ago
It's kinda funny how their CEO writes on Twitter all the time that they are the best company in the world, with the best product, do most innovations in tech etc and 10 minutes later he is threatened by a small open-source project that wasn't even created to compete.
- pcmaffey 5y agoHe blocked me on Twitter for pointing out something (technical) he said was wrong, and then he deleted his tweet. Told me everything I need to know about that guy.
- teddyh 5y agoLink to your tweet, please?
- pcmaffey 5y agohttps://twitter.com/pcmaffey/status/1117437322927247360 https://twitter.com/pcmaffey/status/1117437322927247360
- Jorengarenar 5y agoWhat were you responding to?
- pcmaffey 5y agoI don't really remember the context. This was 2+ years ago. He was trying to compare some search results on twitter vs google, when using exact match with one query but not the other.
- advanced-DnD 5y agoHe's deleting a lot of tweets as we speak.. I think he got famous
- aparsons 5y agoMentioned in my other comment, but just all the more evidence of a megalomaniac, insecure CEO trying to build a company out of shallow moats and little value creation
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoI feel great that others see how ridiculous Amjad is… Replit is cool but has a serious attitude.
- fossuser 5y agoYeah - I don't really like piling on, but Replit and Roam both give off massive alarms for me regarding the founders. Both seem to think they're Xerox PARC - or the most ambitious software companies on earth, both products seem pretty underwhelming. Just seems wildly disproportionate to what they're doing. At least Steve Jobs was actually building stuff that was revolutionary. Elon Musk is building reusable rockets and pulling EVs from the future to modern day. Roam is making another centralized document editor? In terms of software ambition neither of them come close to Urbit in what they're trying to accomplish, and Galen is not an ass about it.
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoWell, these are things that most tech people know, we just don't discuss them because we're polite.
- boothrowaway 5y agoWord on the street is that the Roam founder Conan is also getting pushed out for dehumanizing women and abusing meth, and being a general jackass. Silicon Valley has the best culture.
- fossuser 5y agoI don't know the truth around that either way, but I think Roam is based in Utah at some ranch (even if they're funded by a16z). I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture. I think his brother was also the QAnon shaman horn guy (at least he said as much on Twitter - maybe it was a joke?).
- hashbig 5y agoI unfollowed him after he tweeted that Repl.it is the most innovative company in the world. Yeah, not SpaceX or Neuralink or Pfizer. A company that runs docker images is the most innovative company.
- nkmnz 5y agoAre you referring to Pfizer because of the mRNA-vaccine? That has actually been invented by the German biotech startup BioNTech ;-)
- ipaddr 5y agoThe manufactoring at Pfizer is pretty impressive.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt is impressive, but it comes from capital and not innovation. Pfizer is not the only manufacturer of the BioNTech vaccine.
- sudosysgen 5y agoPfizer doesn't really belong in that list. They applied money to an already made invention and scaled up an existing manufacturing process along with a dozen other companies. Pfizer is not even the only manufacturer of the BioNTech vaccine, nor is it the first manufacturer to express interest, nor did it take any risk. I'd say the most innovative company in the world is probably Alphabet or Samsung.
- xpressvideoz 5y agoI can totally understand why Alphabet is on the list, but what is your reason for regarding Samsung as the most innovative company? Nowadays I've found them struggling to compete with their Chinese and Taiwanese opponents.
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- hellbannedguy 5y agoIt's crazy how a little bit of money can turn people into jerks.
- tjpnz 5y agoWell the product is obvious and easy to replicate without specialised knowledge. CEO likely realises this as much as everyone else so feels the need to overcompensate with personal marketing (and apparently now lawyers).