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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by naringas on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:51AM (#21418743)
growth != success

edit: not saying it didn't used to be, up to the 20th century it certainly was.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by Razengan on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:53AM (#21418760)
"Growth" = ?
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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by wongarsu on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:17PM (#21420457)
Growth implies success, but you can be successful without growth.

Just running a profitable business that's not losing market share is enough for most people's definition of success.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by Razengan on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:16PM (#21422052)
> Growth implies

But what is growth? Making more money? More users? Happier users?

After attaining profitability I wish companies would focus on making existing users happy, instead of making more money by any means necessary. If they did that then more users + more money would follow naturally.

The sibling comment about cancer is so apt. When does "growth" become cancerous?

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by naringas on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:19PM (#21421317)
> Growth implies success

there's a very famous counterexample, namely cancer. are there others?

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