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"how business works" Business isn't always about maximizing shareholder value. Consider that Dave Johnson once shut Working Software down for an afternoon so
by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
"how business works"
Business isn't always about maximizing shareholder value. Consider that Dave Johnson once shut Working Software down for an afternoon so we could see Malcolm X on the company dime.
- brudgers 11y agoAllowing/Not Allowing Tor is more architectural decision than team-building exercise. By which I mean the proposal draws a dependency on a legitimate/illegitimate user service and then depends on its ongoing instrumentation and adds the overhead of another thing to monitor and something else for users to complain about if Tor is turned off again. So I'm not really talking about "maximizing shareholder value" and anyway, I think YC has partners rather than shareholders as is the case with most organizations optimized for investing [but I'm just speculating and being pedantic]. What I am talking about is market segmentation, and its role on HN. It's not trying to be Facebook and segments out people who want to use it like Facebook...and that's probably why I enjoy it more. Hope all is well.