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You got me there! The larger trend I'm trying to point out though is the steady move away from intuition based companies and into companies nearly completely d
by outside1234 14y ago
You got me there! The larger trend I'm trying to point out though is the steady move away from intuition based companies and into companies nearly completely driven by data.
The shift that we are seeing in lean startups reflects this - it is not a guru based process but a data driven one to start a company. Obviously, execution counts as well, but given two otherwise equal companies: One with a guru based approach (ala Steve Jobs) and one with a data driven process, I believe the inflection point has been reached where the data driven company wins consistently.
- stfu 14y agoWasn't that the approach of some Cybernetic idealistits in the 50s? That the world would be such a better place, if we just could ban intuition and let everything get run by machines? Even if that would be hypothetically be possible, I would neither want to work nor life in a world like that. Predictability kills any excitement.
- halvsjur 14y agoIsn't that a tad black and white?
- sopooneo 14y agoI feel like data helps you reach the peak of local maxima. And perhaps that lines up with absolute maxima for mature industries. But I expect people still need to be involved to get us in range of the target.