thrownaway

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by thrownaway 9y ago
Well-said. I worked at a place that had layoffs awhile back and it was a real bummer, in part because of the layoffs, but also because management lied about the reasons for them and the health of the company at the subsequent all-hands. O
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by thrownaway 9y ago
It seems hard to argue that we outsiders know better that the "twitter-as-a-developer-platform" vision would have turned into a business much larger than what Twitter is now vs. the people on the actual board reviewing the finance
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by thrownaway 9y ago
You seem to be backing up what I was saying. The VC's LPs want huge returns. The VCs also want huge returns. The Twitter board chose the path it did to create those returns.
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by thrownaway 9y ago
I know that's a very comforting line of thought but it rings a bit false. Without the funds from the LPs backing the VCs there would have been no Twitter and no ecosystem of apps to begin with. I agree it sucks that Twitter shafted it
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by thrownaway 16y ago
Good catch. Just deactivated that and a bunch of others. I set up a bunch of Twitter bots one night. Not my finest moment.
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by thrownaway 16y ago
Thank you for the encouragement. What you wrote out here, is what I've been doing for the last year or so. I had some good friends tell me to just man up and figure out how to make what I thought would help sell my stuff. So I did. Were
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by thrownaway 16y ago
I've added my contact info to the top post at the end. Thanks.
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by thrownaway 16y ago
Thanks! I'll give it a look.
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by thrownaway 16y ago
I'm upvoting you for asking good questions. -Not vaporware. I have a prototype I've been using to sell my own products. That's how I make $5k/month right now. The problem is that there's no way anyone other than me could use the code I c
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