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What’s sobering is even a prescient leader like Butterfield was snowed despite that clear evidence.

I tell everyone founder - acquisition is the death of everything you worked for. Acquisitions teams are sales teams with 0 follow on accountability, structure, or goals. They are quite literally there to tell you what you want to hear & get you to believe it’s true. With maybe the exception of Microsoft, it’s not.

Great story! I’m curious what use cases are common for the integration?

I think your example is actually a counter example.

This is also how most people, regardless of age, learn.

The key is - did you have to warn your son again?

I subscribe to natural consequence parenting within guardrails. People learn from experience reliably, the key is to allow manageable consequences.

Richard - thank you for sharing your journey with us.

Your work and achievements are an inspiration, even now.

Sometimes progress really is one person at a time. You & your team changed the lives of millions.

My own social startup failed. It is so hard to watch your dream, all that you are, die.

All I can pass on is that your journey is not done & taking good care of yourself is how you’ll be able to take it.

My sincere wish is that you allow your karma balance to settle.

You deserve to enjoy life, to do work you find meaningful, and to be remembered for your contributions.

You overcame incredible odds time & again. If anyone has proven investment in second chances make a difference, you have.

I’m not sure your 2nd point is that controversial. Many clear examples of companies manufacturing scarcity in order to create profits - light bulbs being an easy example.

KYC is the reason we have an archaic banking system while the rest of the world leap frogs us.

Tough to solve when petrodollars are still the reserve currency globally.

A very good example of how easy it is to assume incompetence when you don’t understand the constraints.

It’s more of a Disney/Pixar situation

Slack is the wedge the Salesforce product team is using to reinvent itself.

This is fantastic. I’d love to chat with you about it. Super powerful to have intel on the tech stack. Might be a bigger opp for you in RevOps. I’m on Twitter @briansowards or your can find email in bio.

A semi-interesting read on a topic I often think about.

I’ll boil it down to “new systems generate new social systems, that become imitations of themselves, that then cannibalizes the initial system.”

The insight I see here is we need new social technology.

The “hands on” founder is back with Gen Z, along with verticalized ambitions. There were easy wins building on the institutional tech stack we've inherited, but today you are more likely to conform or fail if you launch a transformational innovation on that stack.

Instead, I see founders going to the source of each institution to create change. Cul de Sac in AZ going after that.

In the same way, we’re designing a vertical reinvention of the org as a guild. There’s institutions we’re build on for sure, but the security comes more from community than the enforcement of agreements by traditional institutions.