Dear followers: You have to read this: “Why I left Google to join Grab” by Steve Yegge --> Thread follows steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84"> medium.com/@steve.yegge/w…
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018… @FomAlumni should pay special attention, cause: "Oh, and we get to build a platform. 🙂 You know how I love those."
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018Let me highlight 3 ideas from Steve's post:
1) About Innovation
2) About Grab: grab.com/sg/
3) About what's coming
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 20181) INNOVATION: "The main reason I left Google is that they can no longer innovate. First, they’re conservative. Sec… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018... What does it mean to be competitor-focused? https://t.co/VWgXujF5Nr
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018… in other words, Google is now a mature large corp. and Yegge is simply realising this is incompatible with innova… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018… on the other hand, OMG! If Google is not innovative today, who is innovative? (Yes, yes Grab, of course.)
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 20182) This is hilarious: "what is Grab? Well, the simple and unsatisfying answer is: They’re the Uber of Southeast Asi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 20183) About what's coming: 3 key ideas
Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane.
Southeast Asia is Th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018"Jeff Bezos has been trying for twenty years to solve the last-mile problem."
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018"But for essentially the whole world, the last-mile problem wasn’t solved until ride-hailing networks came along."
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Paco Jariego (@fjjariego) January 25, 2018