Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee

Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by sheepmullet on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:55PM (#15361993)

> The distinction is that product development, sales and marketing can act as multipliers in a way that engineering seldom does.

Engineering is the key multiplier.

> For example, what would happen if magically Twitter's tech became 50% better overnight?

What if twitter only needed 50-100 engineers?

What if twitter had an ad platform that was as good as facebooks or googles?

If the world had 50% better tech we could automate tens of millions of jobs.

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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by CoreXtreme on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:00AM (#15377844)

>> What if twitter only needed 50-100 engineers?

Their IPO will suck because every wannabe big company must have lots of employees to raise more money.

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