People and companies peak for one or two generations at most. What happens long before the petro issue described here is people generally stop giving a fuck.
There are few organizations that make it past any long range of time and when they do they’re well past their hay day, whether is Std Oil, Dutch East India, Exxon ,etc. Folks at Basecamp will lose their steam similarly when DHH leaves too and stops giving a fuck. It’ll happen to Apple, Amazon and Google. It’s the natural cycle.
There are few organizations that make it past any long range of time and when they do they’re well past their hay day, whether is Std Oil, Dutch East India, Exxon ,etc. Folks at Basecamp will lose their steam similarly when DHH leaves too and stops giving a fuck. It’ll happen to Apple, Amazon and Google. It’s the natural cycle.