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My first thought exactly. My second thought was - if Patrick is so convinced about this and already has such good ties with Colin, why doesn't he run this busin
by gingerlime 13y ago
My first thought exactly. My second thought was - if Patrick is so convinced about this and already has such good ties with Colin, why doesn't he run this business on top of tarsnap, and they both agree on a way to share the profits.
This way, Colin can keep things his way, Patrick his way, and they both profit.
- tomp 13y agopatio11 wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524429 > Because being on the hook for people's backups is not my idea of a fun time, because I'd be directly competing with an Internet buddy who I'd rather see successful, because I have no particular comparative advantage in backups that I don't have in a host of better product categories, because I already run three businesses and enjoy sleeping occasionally, because running services is in fact a heck of a lot harder than posting about them, etc etc.
- gingerlime 13y agoThe point about competing is void if they collaborate (and they are already friends, so collaboration of this sort should be easy). Each does what they're best at. Patrick at marketing and reaching corporate clients. Colin at the delivering the core product and keeping on the promises of never losing your data etc. To some extent other concerns about sleep and worrying about other people's backups is also something that Colin would take care of in my dream collaborative scenario.