One really easy way to tell if an organization is going to embrace enshittification in its products is to see if everyone in a decision-making position did a stint working at Facebook after they enabled a genocide.
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One really easy way to tell if an organization is going to embrace enshittification in its products is to see if everyone in a decision-making position did a stint working at Facebook after they enabled a genocide.
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Another is likely the ratio of MBAs among executives.
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@Greengordon @anildash And if the marketing team is making decisions for engineering you're doomed.
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@miah @Greengordon I think that depends a *ton* on the organizational culture. There are folks making decisions at Apple who would be considered marketing, but are making great choices that engineering can get behind. It's really about fluency and alignment to goals.
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@anildash @Greengordon it may be true for a company like Apple (I don't know, never worked there). But every VC funded startup I worked at died when the engineering culture converted to a marketing culture.
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@miah @anildash @Greengordon
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@godzero @miah @Greengordon your pinned post is marketing a petition, show that you're a person of principle and delete it.
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@miah @Greengordon there are just as many startups that die because engineering disappears down a rabbit hole of self-indulgence without considering what users or the market wants. It takes a collaboration that balances all these impulses. VCs typically make things horrible by focusing on hyper-growth and being over-extractive; they can achieve that through bad actors in leadership in marketing, engineering, finance, or anywhere else.
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@anildash @miah @Greengordon
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@godzero @miah @Greengordon I'm just saying – we all do marketing. It's reductive to vilify it.