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Bill walked into the office sporting a green eyeshade, the kind accountants used to wear in the early parts of the twentieth century to reduce eye strain. He went around the office space, greeting people at their desks before eventually arriving at Dan’s door. Congratulations, he said, you saved the company. You are now the most successful nongrowth CEO in the valley! The accountants may be happy, but that’s about it, because that’s not what you came here to do, is it? He hugged Dan, then chucked the eyeshade at him. Dan realized in that moment that he had solved only one problem, a big one, but Bill was right. Dan didn’t want to just save the company, he wanted to grow it. The truth was a bit of a slap in the face, but it was time to get back to work.
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
In theory it might one day be possible for a software company to produce an app without writing any code of its own, just by assembling a bunch of microservices created by other companies. In fact, people have theorized about the “one-person unicorn,” meaning a company that is valued at $1 billion or more but is run by one person—a developer whose app sits on top of all those commercial microservices.
Ask Your Developer
Jeff Lawson
Why? It couldn’t just be Onitsuka’s decrepit factories, we all agreed, and sure enough Woodell eventually figured out that Onitsuka was satisfying its local customers in Japan first, then worrying about foreign exports. Terribly unfair, but again what could I do? I had no leverage.
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