This post is almost entirely dead WRONG. It's revenue that matters, period. "People" are not what matters. Satisfied customers matter. If you provide a product or service that people are willing to pay for, then nothing ... NOTHING can take that from you. You don't NEED investors. Get off that trip. This article mentioned that, "the reason Larry and Sergey are so rich is not so much that they've done work worth tens of billions of dollars, but that they were the first investors in Google." Sorry, but again WRONG. The reason they are so rich compared to the rest of us is that we've lost track of the concept that we live in a Shared Fate world. We're all in this together, but we've forgotten that fact. It is physically and philosophically IMPOSSIBLE for any individual human being to be worth BILLIONS more than any other human being. We all put our pants on one leg at a time and we all only have 24 hours in a day. "All men are created equal." Remember that? It's called the Declaration of Independence. I believe your writing eminates from the right motives, but it fosters many of the wrong reactions and sentiments. Find a customer. Provide what the customer requires. No customer, no business. End of story. Yes, this post is intentionally terse and dialectical in order to to elicit meaningful dialog instead of pointless ass kissing.
I agree that felt-value constitutes reality in business, on both sides, the value of having a vendor and the value of having a client, both orbiting a meaningful transaction.
However I balk at the Declaration of Independence as the basis for this. It is part of cosmic law that seemingly disparate parts be unified as events in time and space.
The time prior to now was more available to this awareness, but incompletely conscious of this underlying basis for justice, commerce, etc. We have no pants, basically.
The internet has exposed this issue we have of whether to actually work for the true common good, for the Universal interest and no a niche freedom like americanic liberty or romantic imperial entitlement, or whether we are doing the fun thing - being king, being the man, being the world authority, but not the real, messy, selfless, egoless world leader. The leader serves the universal interest. The merely free do not have this underlying responsibility to the people. Whether in america, rome, babylon, sumaria, russia, the little people and the heavy heavies must be on the same platform, or there is no genuine premise of law.
So that is the dynamic under the problem internet companies have. Solving the underlying dynamic will be required to solve the problem on top - revenue. Once this dynamic of congruence with the universe fruits, as it is today, there will no longer be quixotism in human interactions.I agree that felt-value constitutes reality in business, on both sides, the value of having a vendor and the value of having a client, both orbiting a meaningful transaction.
However I balk at the Declaration of Independence as the basis for this. It is part of cosmic law that seemingly disparate parts be unified as events in time and space.
The time prior to now was more available to this awareness, but incompletely conscious of this underlying basis for justice, commerce, etc. We have no pants, basically.
The internet has exposed this issue we have of whether to actually work for the true common good, for the Universal interest and no a niche freedom like americanic liberty or romantic imperial entitlement, or whether we are doing the fun thing - being king, being the man, being the world authority, but not the real, messy, selfless, egoless world leader. The leader serves the universal interest. The merely free do not have this underlying responsibility to the people. Whether in america, rome, babylon, sumaria, russia, the little people and the heavy heavies must be on the same platform, or there is no genuine premise of law.
So that is the dynamic under the problem internet companies have. Solving the underlying dynamic will be required to solve the problem on top - revenue. Once this dynamic of congruence with the universe fruits, as it is today, there will no longer be quixotism in human interactions.
