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Re:What Is a Tech Company? by afarrell on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @08:18AM (#20876398)
> Disrespect for revenue-driven decisions

I think thats the one that hurt you the most.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

Code quality and developer experience matters because it enables you to quickly use a codebase to solve business problems. But you still have to focus on business problems.

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Re:What Is a Tech Company? by mannykannot on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:53AM (#20878394)
A professed concern for code quality sometimes manifests itself in endless bikeshedding over small matters. At least initially, be a little bit skeptical of the person with one system behind him, who is determined to do this one right.
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