Warren Buffet really is a 100 billion dollar door to door salesman
Edit: Just finished the letter and he sure is ever the salesman, closing the letter with "cousin" Jimmy Buffett's pontoon party boat, exclusive 10% discount for shareholders!
Three first thematic examples I googled (conglomerate, railway, insurer).
That's a pretty good sell to me.
For the record, I happen to work for a Berkshire Hathaway company and Geico gives me good rates.
May the text versions of these sites never wither away!
[0] https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2017/text-only-news-sites...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010912003713/http://www.cnn.co...
Sort of the equivalent of this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
Reading that from them is hilarious. The message might be about being a bootstrapper and not spending frivolously.... or simply saying they don't care, who knows?
I sometimes wonder if launching a new B2C startup that provides utility, but that doesn't look that good or modern, might succeed not just in spite of the lack of attention to design, but because of it.
I'm talking 1996-2002 era tables and gifs. Nothing fancy.
Would consumers trust it?
Would the usability be greater or worse if it was just plain HTML?
The majority of my layouts are plain text, HTML tables and forms, and some SVG charts spruced up with a little bit of JS if it's enabled (everything should still work without it).
Performance is fast and it looks modern enough so long as I use modern CSS and some reactive design, but makes people feel at home because it doesn't FEEL like big tech.
I am looking for extremely small seed-level funding so I can continue to build out the site full-time until I am able to sell it to the large number of prospective customers I have (this summer, sailing doesn't happen in the Chicago winter).
There is a typo on https://regatta.page/team:
> Former Software Engineer at Fortune 100 Financial Serivices Company
Related tangent: https://gd.css is a great little tag-only CSS reset alternative with a minimalist vibe.
A lot of websites from that era are unusable from mobile phones. Whatever your business or marketing strategy, there's a significant chance the first time a new customer clicks on a link to your webpage, he's doing so from a mobile phone.
Can you share examples?
I think it’s the only time I’ve seen him do it, and it’s the best. One of the richest men in the world. That’s my no-nonsense boy, right there. Love him or hate him, but his no-frills frugality is refreshing.
[0] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/