Ian Betteridge
ianbetteridge.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Ian Betteridge, a technology journalist, writes about Apple, antitrust, Meta, Microsoft and tech industry culture.
What HN saysHN links it for his critique of Paul Graham's "founder mode", which he argues is wrong about management and leadership.
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BenFranklin100 · 2024-09-15
The author of the post, Ian Betteridge, makes this statement:
"But the other reason why the whole founder mode is a hot mess is that Paul Graham is entirely wrong about management and leadership. Yeah, I know: Graham has been involved with building more companies than I have."
However, the about page on his blog and his LinkedIn indicates he has zero experience running any companies, small or large. Am I missing something?
https://ianbetteridge.com/about/
paulmd · 2023-09-27
This cuts both ways too - "if facebook deploys their spyware build and requires you to sideload it, then just don't use facebook". But then you lose contact with friends/families/etc.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-offered-gi…
Also Google themselves currently don't actually use RCS either, but rather a proprietary fork of RCS which prevents interop, and already refuses access to third parties who ask to interoperate. And app-store warfare does not address this at all.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs-apple-for…
https://ianbetteridge.com/2022/08/19/please-wont-someone-stop-the-bull…
Trading proprietary iMessage for proprietary Google messaging is a net loss.