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Fried: Uber is held up as successful but is a fundamentally terrible business
“I have a hard time though sometimes with tech businesses that are quote successful or held up as successful examples of businesses that are actually fundamentally terrible businesses. I think like things like companies like Uber is an example.”
Fried: The software industry is not winner-take-all
“It might be true in a specific market where it is really winner take all, but I don't think it is in our industry. I mean, that's why there's hundreds of companies roughly doing kind of similar things that we're doing. And many of them are going to do quite we…”
Jason Fried strongly dislikes Facebook and its business practices
“We don't like Facebook. I don't like their company.”
Fried: Software industry is sick with perpetual high-growth expectations
“I see it in our industry is sick with that. I think Primarily, I would guess because it's a high growth industry, first of all. So like, there's this expectation you're supposed to live up to. And when you look at all the, let's say the great companies in the …”
Fried: Speeding up audio is unhealthy and creates false expectations of speed
“I don't think it's necessarily a good thing to have information come at you that fast because you're in a hurry to get it. I think it kind of creates this expectation of everything coming at you fast. I don't think that that's necessarily that healthy either.”
Fried: College graduates are poorly taught how to write and communicate
“The thing that surprises me most about people coming out of school is how poorly school teaches people how to write and communicate actually. I read cover letters and whatnot, and I'm just surprised that, you know, you can graduate college and not really know …”