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Williams preferred Blogger going out of business over an enterprise pivot
“And so, like, company blogging, I was like, fine, maybe we can make money, but I'd kind of rather go out of business. It's, that's not interesting. Let's, let's not do that.”
Blogger's server costs dropped from $50,000 to $5,000 after staff departed
“Once everybody left, my costs went from 50,000 a month to 5000 a month still to pay for the servers, and I just wanted to keep building it, so I kept building it.”
Williams admits being conflict-averse and poor at relationship management at Pyra
“I would say, worse than that, I don't think I was good at relationships, which, even more fundamentally. I mean, management is a particular skill, but I wasn't good at relationships, i.e. How to deal with conflict, the most important thing, and I avoided confl…”
Pyra Labs staff entirely walked out after Williams paused salary guarantees
“And then I sat everybody down and said, we don't have any money to pay you past this next pay period. So you're welcome to come back. I think this is on Friday. You're welcome to come back. I'm going to keep working. If you come back and work, you know, we'll …”