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Just on your last point. The other thing I'm seeing and hearing is that incumbents are not willing to let this next "wave of digital transformation" be won by s

by neom 3y ago

Just on your last point. The other thing I'm seeing and hearing is that incumbents are not willing to let this next "wave of digital transformation" be won by startups. I get a real sense that F500 corps are considerably more "tech savvy" than the last generation of modernization we went through. I suspect we're going to see fairly decent software offerings from large corps in all verticals. In the past, we often saw startups out maneuvering large enterprises and winning handily. In this next wave, I see we are going to have more enterprise on enterprise battling. I only say this because I'm starting to strongly believe that founders need to be keen to this in a way we haven't maybe seen in the past software adoption curves, I don't have a good answer or anything, just that "enterprise are shit" maybe isn't a square you should have on your bingo card anymore? I could be wrong here, but just wanted to add what I'm seeing right now as food for thought. :)

angryconsultant 3y ago
I agree I worked for an enterprise SaaS and we were losing to legacy providers day in and day out. Churn was at an all time high. That more so reflects how we had no PMF though. They are more tech savvy though but with any company that is large they aren’t as nimble and are always susceptible to losing market share. Just depends on the vertical I guess
- neom 3y ago
  Yup. I do 100% agree big corps will never be as nimble. I'll just add, I think what is quite different in this next wave is the muscle exists that was not at all built before. Big companies have always known how to pull together a special ops team and respond to a market change when they have the resources in house (car, truck, minivan). In the last wave (2010ish), Many who knew javascript and saw how the web was emerging went to a startup or got paid to work on open source by VCs and the like, and Big Corp XYZ had both no plans and no stories to tell those people. I think that was expensive and not very much fun for them. Fast-forward... what.. 15 years now? Condé Nast, Ford Motor Company, British Airways have people in house that can wrangle a microservice or configure a k8s cluster, this was just not true 15 years ago, that muscle did not exist I don't think. Going to be quite interesting to see how this all plays out, with the web and "app", it was reasonably easy to guess how it would emerge, this time, less so, for me anyway. (Ps, I'd recommend adding "Tell HN:" to this type of post)
  - angryconsultant 3y ago
    Very insightful, you hit the nail on the head! What’s the purpose of “Tell HN”, I’m new to all of this haha
    - neom 3y ago
      Your post is kinda telling hackernews something you know/think, we usually use Tell HN: for that so it indicates to people it's some type of personal insight you're sharing with the community before they click in, we also use Ask HN: and Show HN: Also, welcome to HN, it's a great place, just make sure you channel that anger you've got positively here, it's easy not to, and dang (our boss) doesn't much like that. ;)
      - angryconsultant 3y ago
        Thank you! Will do for the future, hopefully the name changes from Angry to Happy Consultant

by neom 3y ago

angryconsultant 3y ago

I agree I worked for an enterprise SaaS and we were losing to legacy providers day in and day out. Churn was at an all time high. That more so reflects how we had no PMF though. They are more tech savvy though but with any company that is large they aren’t as nimble and are always susceptible to losing market share. Just depends on the vertical I guess

neom 3y ago
Yup. I do 100% agree big corps will never be as nimble. I'll just add, I think what is quite different in this next wave is the muscle exists that was not at all built before. Big companies have always known how to pull together a special ops team and respond to a market change when they have the resources in house (car, truck, minivan). In the last wave (2010ish), Many who knew javascript and saw how the web was emerging went to a startup or got paid to work on open source by VCs and the like, and Big Corp XYZ had both no plans and no stories to tell those people. I think that was expensive and not very much fun for them. Fast-forward... what.. 15 years now? Condé Nast, Ford Motor Company, British Airways have people in house that can wrangle a microservice or configure a k8s cluster, this was just not true 15 years ago, that muscle did not exist I don't think. Going to be quite interesting to see how this all plays out, with the web and "app", it was reasonably easy to guess how it would emerge, this time, less so, for me anyway. (Ps, I'd recommend adding "Tell HN:" to this type of post)
- angryconsultant 3y ago
  Very insightful, you hit the nail on the head! What’s the purpose of “Tell HN”, I’m new to all of this haha
  - neom 3y ago
    Your post is kinda telling hackernews something you know/think, we usually use Tell HN: for that so it indicates to people it's some type of personal insight you're sharing with the community before they click in, we also use Ask HN: and Show HN: Also, welcome to HN, it's a great place, just make sure you channel that anger you've got positively here, it's easy not to, and dang (our boss) doesn't much like that. ;)
    - angryconsultant 3y ago
      Thank you! Will do for the future, hopefully the name changes from Angry to Happy Consultant