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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by hinkley on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:33PM (#36576291)
A lot of my disillusionment with startups come from this. Being lied to repeatedly by different owners about how selling should be our goal to really start to win, only for the purchase to be the moment where we really start to lose.

It breaks something precious.

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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by florbo on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:46PM (#36576414)
Well, the owners win. That's usually who they're referring to when they say "our", "us", etc.
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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by hinkley on Monday July 03, 2023 @05:52PM (#36579290)
And every spring, there's a new batch of suckers who haven't learned what 'we' means.

Old programmers are discriminated against because they point out when you're taking managerial shortcuts or, as in this case, outright lying.

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