> 3. Eligibility: The Challenge is open to legal residents of the United States. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older as of their date of entry. The Challenge is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law. Employees and contractors of the MTA, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and directors (collectively the “Employees”), as well as members of an Employee’s immediate family and/or those living in the same household, are ineligible to participate in the Challenge.
> “point solution” in technology or business describes a specialized offering – it can be a piece of software, product, or tool designed to address one specific problem within an organization or enterprise.
Plenty of products start this way but due to success get hungrier/greedier and through internal and external pressures expand with additional SKUs to expand their TAM (total addressable market) and their value.
That second paragraph, "hungrier and greedier", is the problem with the entire capitalistic system. If only people stayed small, they'd be happier, have more time, and there would be a wider more diverse set of products available for the public. More importantly, staying small avoids many of the problems startups often hit. It's much easier to handle the culture and internal communications, you don't need investment, and you can focus on making a fantastic product for your much more cohesive set of customers.
Customers don’t generally want to manage many many small products that don’t talk to each other when they reach a certain size.
You might have a cohesive set of customers but the vast majority of micro startups just don’t get enough customers to sustain themselves which is why they move to attract larger customers.
As if this wasn't a problem in communism with its horrendous gigantic state owned companies with millions of employees that always completed the plan to 120% and yet couldn't ever provide a stable supply of basic necessities.
I think you're being unfair. It's clear what the authors intention is. They aren't speaking "down" regarding ICs, they're just making their intention clear in terms of the role they're in search of. Yes, ICs can absolutely be leaders in an organization (and _should_ be) but that doesn't change what the role of a leader is or what the author wants.
> The proof is flawed and I retract the claim that I proved that find + mkdir is Turing complete. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41117141. I will update the article if I could fix the proof.
I'd say it depends on the product and level of effort that goes into supporting either group but yes, I'd generally lean towards this as well but it can be very difficult for a business to maintain this depending on their stage.
The upside to having a healthy number of minnows is, assuming it's low effort to have them onboard in a mostly self-services manner, then they can help the business grow in a healthy way while the team focuses on the larger and more complicated opportunities that may easily lead to nothing. If all you have are the whales it becomes feast or famine but if you have a healthy combination of small and large you'll be well covered. And of course you're banking on a percentage of the smaller customers eventually growing too.
Again, it's about the product and selling motion. Back to the topic, in this instance Broadcom did the math and they simply don't have a product that lends itself well to smaller shops and just isn't worth their time and effort to pursue.
> Cocoa and coffee obviously doesn't grow in France, so it already came for somewhere else very far away.
From the article:
> After the ship leaves New York City on April 15, 2024, Grain de Sail ll will return to France, loaded with various goods. This is the first load of many for the Grain de Sail ll. In total, this vessel plans to sail the seas five times a year, trekking from France to New York and then down through the Caribbean, where the sailboat will dispatch humanitarian aid, working alongside local NGOs. The sailboat will also restock its coffee and cacao supply on its journey through the Caribbean. That supply is then brought back across the sea to France, where the coffee is roasted, and fine chocolates are produced.
> IF something did go wrong, they would at times call IBM and ask for service before the customer had any knowledge of an issue.
I always assumed their call home service was triggered by SNMP but may be wrong? Regardless, IBM exposed a lot of metrics via SNMP so it was always an easy way to query it for metrics and/or accept traps from their devices/OS’s for failures
> 3. Eligibility: The Challenge is open to legal residents of the United States. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older as of their date of entry. The Challenge is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law. Employees and contractors of the MTA, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and directors (collectively the “Employees”), as well as members of an Employee’s immediate family and/or those living in the same household, are ineligible to participate in the Challenge.
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