A fun thing about being in a cloud sales org at MS was getting a front row seat to lots of stories like this The company would often be renowned for having great business practices, w/many books written on how to run your business like theirs b/c that would make you successfulhttps://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1122243831615741952 …
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This is the kind of thing I think of when people say you should do X because some company does X It's become trendy to say that you shouldn't do X because you don't have the same scale, but I think this misses the more common reason you shouldn't copy another company's decisionpic.twitter.com/HR7gg8yy9s
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Likely, the decision ultimately came down to connections, not technical "merit". Even if you have the same scale or are even literally the same company, copying the outcome is nonsensical because the decision making process doesn't make sense out of the context of trading favors.
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There are a lot of infamous stories about this kind of thing (e.g., re-writing a working chat app on top of the wrong database so that it could no longer reliably send messages), but the thing I think is often missed is that "good" decisions are often made for similar reasons.
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Like when there are two competing proposals, both eminently reasonable, and some VP has to decide which one to pick. They don't have the time to really evaluate the proposals (no one does), so they pick the person they trust. Why should anyone copy the outcome of this process?
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Everyone in Silicon Valley should have to use my grandparents’ black rotary phone for a year to appreciate how monopoly let AT&T stagnate and what its breakup meant for tech.
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There is no there there. I find myself falling into the trap of "corp A probably has such an efficient system that they never deal with this type of problem", then I realize, nope everyone is doing the same drudgerous work.
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The single biggest lesson of my one company founding was that the thing(s) you get right is much, much, much more important than the thing(s) you get wrong - every successful co got *lots* of things wrong, they just got *something* right enough that the mistakes didn’t kill them
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Money hides a lot of problems.
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Indeed. In many cases, it is impossible to have any idea on whether a company makes money because of sth or despite it
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Facebook af
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