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trjordantoday at 4:11 PM1 replyview on HN

lmao hi Matt

I agree, though maybe the middle ground is something more like: the constraints of our environments shape us. It's easy to say that big companies are a weird and unique cave that produces weird and unique outcomes, but other companies are somehow constraint-free. Smart, talented founders do weird and constrained things all the time because they don't have capital or customer bases or brands, and those are also constraints that bind just as hard.

"Race for MVP to learn what your bottleneck is" is a handcuff, just like "you can't deploy more than 3x / year because our customer base hates change."


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oooyaytoday at 6:37 PM

Yeah I agree with that. I'd also extend this to ICs, but the effect is probably less pronounced as those with much more consequential power.