Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees

Re:Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer ... by TurboHaskal on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:35AM (#33880526)

  > those who have dedicated many hours of their lives digging their own grave

I fixed that for you.

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Re:Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer ... by yetanotherforg on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:37AM (#33880564)

Yep. Absolute suckers for giving out their work for free I guess.

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Re:Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer ... by theturtletalks on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:07AM (#33881162)

You misunderstand their intentions.

“I’ve already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding things out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it - those are the real things, the honors are unreal to me.” -Richard Feynman

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Re:Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer ... by yetanotherforg on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:16AM (#33881331)

This assumes that there is no financial intent in the work. My favorite example of this is that many thousands of Google's engineers used an app (Homebrew I think), but Google wouldn't hire him, thus letting him share in wealth partially created by his life's work.

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Re:Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer ... by TurboHaskal on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:13AM (#33881286)

Did Richard Feynman struggle to pay rent?

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Re:Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer ... by yetanotherforg on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:25AM (#33881499)

Wasn't his work funded by the government?

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