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Once you take outside money, you have to give up the sense of purpose if it conflicts with collecting money. This is more an issue of optimization versus long
by mathattack 13y ago
Once you take outside money, you have to give up the sense of purpose if it conflicts with collecting money.
This is more an issue of optimization versus long term vision. Some firms can act like Apple, ignore feedback, and invent the future. That's very rare. The rest must react to feedback.
- hpriebe 13y agoThis is interesting in respect to @harrf's comment above. He says, "Given an existing user base, on average 30% will hate any given change to their user experience, independent of whether the that experience is actually worse or better." I wonder how @harrf's number would play out over time as users adjust, get used to, and accept changes the way many Apple users do. I'm not convinced that designers always know what's best for users, but I do think it sometimes takes a little while for users to catch on to the long-term benefits designers are designing for.
- snowwrestler 13y agoFacebook was very carefully structured so that investors cannot oust Zuckerberg.
- mathattack 13y agoYes. Google too. That's very rare though. Even still, you have to expect those investors to demand attention to the current value of their investment.