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> That's fine, you don't need the same quality of engineers when you've dominated a market. You've built the thing. It's done. Let them go and build the next thing. > But the engineers aren't the only ones who are paid in stock - so are all the executives. And they want money! So you must keep the growth up. This might be why so many (not all) great software services and products eventually turn into crap. They start out focused and well made, caring about their users and workers. Then the owners and decision makers try to squeeze everything out of it and carelessly add bloat, while "optimizing" internal processes into oblivion. And all that because some people simply cannot get enough stuff, is a business' goal always to extract value and power for the few despite already having massive market share, a good name and happy customers? There is another path: invest in the long term by putting workers and customers first. Give back, invest in R&D, education, open source, social stability, the _quality_ of their product, growth of their workers and relationship with their customers. If this was the common path of successful companies, we would live in a different, fairer, more sustainable advanced society. |