unstrategic

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by unstrategic 3y ago
> Rust isn't some silver bullet Rust codebases extend in size and scale to larger teams fundamentally better than C++ / C. Rust offers more leverage in building ambitious system software. Since you mention Qt, imagine writing a
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by unstrategic 4y ago
Sounds a lot like the effect of venture capital in the present day. > First of all, the best scientists would be removed from their laboratories and kept busy on committees passing on applications for funds Convince talented technical in
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by unstrategic 4y ago
> the difference between this and an IPO is academic in my view More theatrical than academic — if both options have a risky short-term outlook, optimize for the story. Sold for $20B? Or lackluster IPO? As GP of a VC fund, which story
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by unstrategic 4y ago
Arguably, the money game is exactly what Figma was playing all along. Dylan's good at this game, as are the VCs he partnered with. Figma's flagship product was private equity. The design tool was secondary.
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by unstrategic 4y ago
> It's that Adobe was likely seeing subscription revenue take hit from customers While being pummeled by public markets, and being forced to make a move that might keep shareholders from calling for blood. This is certainly not the
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by unstrategic 4y ago
"Hand-off" describes a paradigm of designer/developer collaboration where a designer creates a mock-up or prototype, then "hands off" that picture to a developer who then creates the "real thing." Hand-off
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by unstrategic 4y ago
So they made a slightly better Adobe. Figma is all about collaborating on software — yet they don't touch software. They have been incrementally innovative in involving design-adjacent stakeholders in the design process, but the elep
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by unstrategic 4y ago
When Adobe acquired Macromedia, they extinguished an entire paradigm of design tool: "design tools that create software." Back in the booming 90's, this paradigm was _the future_. Through that acquisition, Adobe shoe-horned
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by unstrategic 4y ago
Sure, $2T — a fundamental innovation in how we "design and build" software has implications as far-reaching as the World Wide Web itself. Google IS the World Wide Web — they have previously broken a $2T market cap.
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by unstrategic 4y ago
Figma was never on track to change the world. They were an Adobe clone from the beginning, out-executing them, but fundamentally exactly as anti-innovative. Not that $20B is anything to shake a stick at — but real innovation in this market