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Executives and managers do actually contribute useful things to large-enough firms. But the failure mode of engineer-driven companies is Juicero; the failure mo
by khafra 2y ago
Executives and managers do actually contribute useful things to large-enough firms. But the failure mode of engineer-driven companies is Juicero; the failure mode of MBA-driven firms is killing people for profit (lying in order to sell poison to third-world mothers, sending death squads after labor organizers, lowering passenger airliner quality until they start falling out of the sky, etc.).
- maeil 2y ago> But the failure mode of engineer-driven companies is Juicero; the failure mode of MBA-driven firms is killing people for profit. This is one to hang on the wall as an office poster!
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- phanimahesh 2y agoJuicero feels like a manager or growth hacker or hype person driven thing. I find it hard to imagine juicero being an engineering team.
- khafra 2y agoI'm not a mechanical engineer, so I base my "overly engineer-driven" impression of the company almost solely on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
- blitzar 2y agoJuicero feels like a failure mode of grindset.
- rqtwteye 2y agoI wouldn’t call Juicero engineering driven. More over-engineering driven. Similar to software developers creating hyper scalable microservice architectures for even the most trivial systems. True engineering is to understand the requirements and creating an efficient solution for those, not just throwing every possible technology at the project.
- regularfry 2y agoThat's why it's a failure mode.
- mindslight 2y ago... and the Juicero type failure is worse from the perspective of most investors.