Agreed, most "cloud" software slowly try to lock you in, only to lose it in a few years when they get sold, or shut shop, or don't get the next round of funding.
It's a pain, and I now wish we just have internet connected hard drives where we can save whatever we want.
>> Employees want to work 5-10 years max and end up with millions to retire peacefully while working in an intense environment which serves as the story of their accomplishment for the lifetime.
Nopes, founders want millions by (ideally) using technology to disrupt a market and gaining from the windfall.
VC want millions/billions by betting money on such founders.
They both agree to buy talent by promising employees a share of the windfall.
Employees don't start out thinking "hey I want millions, let me join this unknown company".
They usually start out "I need a good, well paying job where I do interesting work."
Why are people downvoting your question? Seems like a legit thing to ask.
I suspect HN behaves a little like how many folks treat their national army... you can't ask a question that may imply a bad decision during an important human/national event.
÷ "Why wasn't your system able to scale to 60 users during natural calamity?"
~ "How dare you question such a noble cause? Have you ever even worked with govt?" (Downvote)
÷ "Yes I have, we had systems in place that worked you know. Most states do."
~ (oh fuck, she knows what she's talking about) "States and municipals don't cooperate, so fuck off now"
So maybe, instead of attacking the OP, try answering the question directly, more honestly?
Make your points with logic and class people, not assholery.
Studies will also show that inducing and keeping them in coma is one of the foolproof ways to ensure a person never tells another lie over a period of 10 or 20 or 30 years.
Controlling or having a low calorie diet isn't a medical treatment [1], it's simply a choice an individual (in most cases) makes. They choose to not continue with the original choice after some time, so to club diet-control under 'medical treatment', and say that it doesn't work, is incorrect.
I think parent is saying something similar to you, but you've just laid it out in more detail. They didn't say the other things you've mentioned don't matter. They said that the product can't be a scrappy MVP.
On the flip side, B2B conferences and tradeshows exist because they're able to give vendors face time with people they couldn't easily meet otherwise.
It's not cheap, the success rate isn't high, but it can be cost-effective. I've spent 20k USD on a small 6x3 feet booth space, but also gotten 40 to 50k USD over the course of a few months from conversations that were initiated at the booth.
Another point to factor in is that enterprise customers by nature have low churn... and that makes the RoI work out in the end.
Reiterating problems in the existing way of doing things is a fairly well known method of getting interest and buy-in from prospective customers, so I think the initial rant might actually be connecting with people.
Not defending him, but seems like a chump who had exhausted every alternative, but won't talk about it honestly, and prefers to go with "this wasn't a failure, you were amazing, I was amazing, product was batshit amazing, onwards to our next adventure!"
It's good this happened, else we'd have another Juicero on our hands.
Ridiculous price, beautifully over engineered product, a slight update to a centuries old problem, but at least they didn't get the opportunity to burn up as much investor money as Juicero.
I'm Indian and I agree with you. Parent overdid it a little bit. People gives many shits about the H1B, and it isn't that easy to pull Indians back from the US.
Relatively easier than say ten years ago, but not at the level of bravado that parent exhibits.