I was thinking about @MailChimp & stalwarts like @basecamp — what are the biggest/most relevant non-venture-backed tech companies around?https://twitter.com/anildash/status/783685404138545152 …
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Replying to @BlueSpaceCanary @Pinboard
no argument that we should question the assumption of scaling, I’m just also curious if it’s even possible.
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Replying to @anildash @BlueSpaceCanary
seems like it should be easier now than ever, since costs have gone down so dramatically
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Replying to @Pinboard @BlueSpaceCanary
right! I made this case a while back, but I’m not sure i still applies broadly. http://anildash.com/2011/01/mom-and-pop-at-web-scale.html …
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Replying to @anildash @BlueSpaceCanary
I kind of hate the “lifestyle business” framing, since I think it encodes a whole prescriptive ideology, man
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Replying to @Pinboard @BlueSpaceCanary
totally agreed. But I wonder if we only see these other options because we come from the olden days.
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hey old man, I’m so avant garde that the avant garde can’t even see me. A speck on their horizon
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