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Quarterly Earnings Reports. You start a startup and offer subscriptions for content. You go public and everything is great. Then you have a bad quarter. Then a
by JustSomeNobody 11y ago
Quarterly Earnings Reports.
You start a startup and offer subscriptions for content. You go public and everything is great. Then you have a bad quarter. Then another. Your stockholders are going to pressure you to find ways to quickly increase revenue (because thinking further into the future than a quarter is for losers, right?). You introduce ads. You have an amazing quarter. Then another. About this time your core user base is exiting for a new startup with a subscription model and no ads. You then have a string of bad quarters. You're in a downward spiral. Was, Rinse, Repeat.
- diminish 11y agoRight now I m staring at twitter picture content on my Android notification area. Are they gonna be ads soon? Most executives will carefully introduce ads by making A/B testing. So your scenario can only be made true by blind and dumb executives. And yes they are many.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoThey are neither blind nor dumb. However, they can only see in green and have a single-minded focus on seeing more green.