In the recent Stratechery interview with Zuckerberg, Mark seemed to indicate FB has no intention of _owning_ the metaverse. Rather, they want to build the technology and platforms that will go towards enabling it. His quote below:
>We don’t think about this as if different companies are going to build different metaverses. We think about it in terminology like the Mobile Internet. You wouldn’t say that Facebook or Google are building their own Internet and I don’t think in the future it will make sense to say that we are building our own metaverse either. I think we’re each building different infrastructure and components that go towards hopefully helping to build this out overall and I think that those pieces will need to work together in some ways.
I'd be cautious multiplying your MRR x 12 to establish ARR. Things like seasonality or promotions could overestimate your ARR by using inflated subscription numbers. Additionally, if customers are not contractually obligated to stick around for a year, that calculation may not account for month-to-month churn.
Incredibly optimistic about the future for HiOperator. Having run a 100+ agent contact center, they are solving some complicated challenges that many growing companies will undoubtedly face.
One thing that doesn't get talked about very often is the social aspect of fasting. I've learned to just shut up about it because more often than not, people generally think you're crazy.
The problem with this type of advice is that you're going to end up approaching prospects from a very narrow point of view. For example, enterprise markets typically have excruciatingly long sales cycles with several layers of decision makers. Those types of deals require longterm investments in the prospective relationship.
Persistence is an admirable trait of any good salesperson though I would never recommend irritating an answer out of someone.
Experience comes to mind. Linode has been in the VPS space for considerably longer than DigitalOcean. Just based on recent HN threads, it appears that many folks are simply kicking the tires with DigitalOcean but may be hesitant to deploy production sites there. Given the low barrier of entry, I can imagine they see considerably more churn and volatility in their customer base compared to Linode.
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Clayton Christensen was profiled in Wired recently and came to a similar conclusion:
"We’ve encouraged managers to measure profitability based on a return on net assets, or return on capital employed. That encourages companies to liberate their capital, so they invest in efficiency innovations, which means they can make more money with fewer resources. But what the economy ultimately needs are empowering innovations—like the Model T, the transistor radio. Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently the world is awash in capital but the innovations we need to advance aren’t there."
>We don’t think about this as if different companies are going to build different metaverses. We think about it in terminology like the Mobile Internet. You wouldn’t say that Facebook or Google are building their own Internet and I don’t think in the future it will make sense to say that we are building our own metaverse either. I think we’re each building different infrastructure and components that go towards hopefully helping to build this out overall and I think that those pieces will need to work together in some ways.
https://stratechery.com/2021/an-interview-with-mark-zuckerbe...