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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by zaarn on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:41AM (#15950741)
Interestingly I agree with these sentences (sans not being 30 yet and not having kids and leaving at precisely 5:30)

I want to start a product because I think it'll be useful and I have bills to pay, I concern myself with user privacy first and foremost when designing and I don't want to fall into the trap of doing an "apple design". I don't want to scale either, I want to have a healthy and slow growth, maybe not even grow beyond a point. From a pure business standpoint these things are irrational (except paying bills) but personally I find them important.

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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by Tade0 on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:39AM (#15951486)
Same here. If I ran a profitable company of at most sixty people I would be the happiest person on earth.
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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by quadcore on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:21AM (#15950877)
> maybe not even grow beyond a point

Meaning you'd refuse access to your product to customers?

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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by zaarn on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:45AM (#15951232)
I don't really see the problem with that. It is not a requirement for a business to constantly grow or seek the maximum amount of customers. If I make some profit without growing, I'm satisfied, especially if my existing customers are satisfied.

(And there are many ways to control growth beyond just "refusing access")

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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by quadcore on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:02AM (#15951307)
What would you get from controlling growth? Existing customers more happy? Anything else? Just curious.
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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by zaarn on Monday December 18, 2017 @09:45AM (#15951917)
Less work, better customer relations, etc.

I personally believe that a small business is just better at making customers happy than a big business (atleast for a lot of things on the internet)

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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by quadcore on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:22AM (#15958394)
Less work is great.
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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by zebMcCorkle on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:07AM (#15951324)
Less work, possibly?
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Re:Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political ver... by lucozade on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:03AM (#15951308)
I read it as not taking on more customers.
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