I was literally talking to the CEO of Substack last night about how startups attract haters as an automatic almost physics-like consequence of growth, and wondering how long it would take before they did.
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Only consumer-visible startups automatically attract haters. If you start a B2B startup you can get as big as you want. But if you start a successful consumer-visible startup, you'll be gradually transformed in situ from plucky underdog to mustache-twirling villain.
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We are working on a B2B project and will put your words to test
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So true. It was a fascinating journey to personally experience.
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What from your experience can you fit into a tweet or two? There has to be something about status quo bias involved.
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unless the B2B startup sells to the government like Palantir
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I guess that's B2G
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So true. When you get traction in the market the society is programmed to initiate people's mind to make openion about you.
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either losers or people with too much free time to make up stories about how people that is successful is evil. Or a combination of both.
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looks like a great company, I just can't get past their 10% fee.
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Well,
@paulg - people hate them for reason. This is simply because consumer-visible startups quickly turn from innovation into monopolistic profit optimizers. Google, FB, Apple, Uber, etc etcThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Oracle. Or do they not count because they earned haters the old-fashioned way?
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I think a large part of the Oracle hate stemmed from how they handled consumer-ish products like the Java platform and MySQL after acquisition.
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