[dustingetz]

Economics of capitalism – you win big by being first to market and then using your advantage to backfill the product.

In startups this is exaggerated further – you need to double with each capital milestone, or you starve to competitors and die. Grow your valuation faster than you grow your technical debt and you can buy your way out with armies of engineers. Smash your competitors with money or buy them outright.

In enterprise, Microsoft software quality oscillates in waves and this works because of their mortal lock on distribution. MS Teams can get away with being way worse than Slack and Zoom. The result is MS can just push early stage trash on us and get away with it long enough to backfill the quality as the next technology wave crests.

Growth and distribution matters SO much more than tech.