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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 h

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

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