[bryans]

You're just being inflammatory now. Questioning whether or not I have business experience, concocting some arbitrary definition of "real" business, pretending I said social media "solves everything," and then declaring that you've got it figured out better than the whole of Seattle's population just because you have a failed business and one "ongoing" -- which doesn't exactly scream "wildly successful using my current strategy."

Toward the end of 2020 I consulted with a handful of startups. Among many topics, my primary advice was to be as genuine as possible in all situations and to become "professional thankers." Universally, the ones who took that advice saw their growth skyrocket in 2021, while the ones who didn't are still wondering why they can't get traction. And they're going to keep wondering until they figure out that the personal connection between yourself, your employees and your customers is paramount, because that's how societies work constructively and successfully.

Whereas your owner-first approach is how we end up with every major company on the planet paying virtually no taxes, and selling customer data, and sometimes even literally colluding and plotting against users' mental health and well-being, never realizing that they'd be so much more profitable and personally enriched if they would only give a damn about their fellow humans.