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How Microsoft Crushed Slack
Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
Scott Belskydigest.scottbelsky.com“You get to a question of, is that what capitalism is supposed to do?” Schwartz asked. “There’s so many little ways that a company like this tells the next generation of entrepreneurs what success looks like.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
The market for consumer productivity apps, which spurred companies like Dropbox and Evernote to multi-billion-dollar valuations, has proven to be mostly a mirage. Businesses are increasingly happy to buy software for their employees; people are often loath to buy software for themselves. And for all it did right, Mailbox never became anything more ... See more
The Verge • Why Mailbox died
“A decade ago there was a really sharp divide between consumer and enterprise, these spaces were highly compartmentalized. We brought a lot of consumer thinking and consumer tactics to enterprise...Gradually over the last decade or so, the barriers have really come down, to the point where I think most founders see this consumerized approach as pro... See more
Brianne Kimmel • Not Found
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez • 1 highlight
amazon.com
Apple had been more innovative, imaginative, elegant in execution, and brilliant in design. But even though Microsoft created a crudely copied series of products, it would end up winning the war of operating systems. This exposed an aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked: The best and most innovative products don’t always win.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
