Someone should do the Palantir model but for the boring backoffice applications that the government presently buys from big consulting shops.
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“bad consumer of software” Customers who can’t distinguish a better solution aren’t my favourite market for selling better solutions to. In my experience, government solutions aren’t evaluated on the solution itself but on the business/brand/salesperson/arbitrary rules
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Wasn't this the entire point of 18F?
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(Not so much to make the government better at writing software, but to make sure that they stop f**king up acquisition.
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Step 1 in selling better solutions to governments is NOT creating a better solution, but, for example, having $1m ARR for the past X years to prove you’re a “proper” business
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Budget based economies without profit incentive are terrible at allocating money (buying things).
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18F and the USDS were a real answer to this broken model. Unfortunately it's likely that they are getting a lot more resistance under the current administration
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We’re going strong! For example - https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/saving-va-100-million-dollars-c5d992e0cf54 …
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That's what GDS did, but without the $$$$
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