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by hyp0 4478 days ago
Yes. Two parts of business: engineering and marketing.

Two parts of marketing: promotion and meeting needs.

The key "marketing" of DO was:

  Existing providers offered pricing plans that were too complicated and platforms
  that weren’t always meeting the needs of their users.
It's not enough to make a "better" product, technically. You have to make a product that better meets user needs (relative to existing alternatives).