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Sounds like a firing / soft firing / come to jesus moment about the viability of the business...
by x0x0 7mo ago
Sounds like a firing / soft firing / come to jesus moment about the viability of the business...
- alephnerd 7mo agoPretty much. It's fun seeing idealists get slapped by reality. If you want to protect your ideals you better know how to fight for them using the same tactics as your competitors. Learning how to build a board that is in your favor, making alliances with less than pure players if needed, and being ruthlessly competitive allows an ideal to become reality.
- spacechild1 7mo agoWhat's fun about it?
- alephnerd 7mo agoIt's like seeing your kid learn how to walk. They'll fail a couple of times, but they'll get toughen up and finally learn.
- pfraze 7mo agoYou are wrong about pretty much all of that, including your assumed reasoning for why this is happening. Jay chose to change her role so she could do deeper work on the technology. That's it.
- verdverm 7mo agoThe issue is that no one really believes the corporate speak any more. Bluesky does not get a pass on this, re: VC funding I have concerns about one piece of messaging I've seen lately, working on a writeup, stay tuned
- verdverm 7mo agoThey could have launched paid subscriptions, they even said they were looking into it, crickets...