A thread with a great, swashbuckling startup story from Nigeria. I won't spoil it for you. Many founders recognize, in Twitter parlance, "this energy."https://twitter.com/SimShagaya/status/1188490198797160449 …
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On "Eff it, we have customers to serve, let's get creative": I was once asked to write a disaster plan for delivery of messages in the event Twilio was down. I wrote, quite formally, that "Contingent on the POTS system being down, we will failover to manual human delivery."
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POTS system being *up*, that is. Not much point in me calling every customer needing a call if calls are down nationwide. "You were bluffing." Well I was bluffing with a specially made page in admin to support that workflow and having trained in a call center (my first job).
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Organizing social suasion to convince a counterparty to move faster? Hmm. If it counts, I once resolved one of Google's famous "We'll keep forwarding your messages to /dev/null until you give up" with "Go to http://google.com slash my-case-study and then find a fixer."
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"Banks don't move at startup speeds." Oh my, the stories. One which is explicitly not related to the current day job: took approximately six weeks to get a business banking account for the Japanese subsidiary of my last company, and (this is an exact count) 123 pages of docs.
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