Comment by bagacrap
5 days ago
Doesn't sound like it was worth it to the paying customers/guinea pigs whose data became vulnerable bc your friend said "security? Lol". But I guess that's true of normie-coded startups as well.
5 days ago
Doesn't sound like it was worth it to the paying customers/guinea pigs whose data became vulnerable bc your friend said "security? Lol". But I guess that's true of normie-coded startups as well.
The customers know he was hacked because the hacker sent an email to everyone on the customer list. Yet none of the customers left and he's only grown the customer base since then.
I think that tells you something: they have a real, painful, and costly problem to solve that he solves for them to a T.
> ...normie-coded startups
Having been in the startup space for the last 20 years spanning bootstrapped companies to startups that raised $8m seed rounds to startups that raised a $100m C round, I've learned that there's only one thing that matters: solving valuable problems and getting that in front of customers.
You can be as technically pristine as you want and live in an ivory tower, but that rarely if ever leads to a successful entrepreneurial endeavor.
> I've learned that there's only one thing that matters: solving valuable problems and getting that in front of customers.
To quote another recent article: That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable.
He's already delivery it and they already see the value in it though?
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