Mike Taber shares his 2021 predictions on Startups for the Rest of Us, discussing the permanent impact of remote work on corporate office space demand.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taber: Google Mandated Minimum Price Floors For Third-Party Developer Security Audits
“The other piece, when I was talking to the three different companies, one of them basically let slip that Google came to them and said, you are required to charge at least this much money. And apparently they get copies of the invoices, which to me seems like …”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Taber predicts definitive proof of extraterrestrial life will be discovered
“My fifth and final prediction here is that we will discover definitive proof of extraterrestrial life. I don't know what exact form that's going to take, whether it's going to be Mars or some comment or, you know, an asteroid going by, but that's the predictio…”
Insight
Tabor: Expansion revenue makes marketing positioning almost irrelevant during fast growth
“If you're growing quickly enough, the marketing almost doesn't matter, especially if you've got that expansion revenue.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taber: Founder Claims AppSumo Users Drove 80% Support Volume Years Later
“One of the founders I talked to, he's like, yeah, 80% of my support calls come from this group of AppSumo users and they're contributing zero moving forward. And this was three, four years later, he still got 80% of his support volume is from those AppSumo use…”
Opinion
Taber: Google's mandatory security audit is an "utter scam"
“And this whole thing is just an absolute, utter scam. It really is.”
Prediction Held up
Taber: Regulators will attempt to break up Big Tech, likely targeting Facebook
“There's going to be a over attempt by a government and I'm going to, you know, kind of lump a couple of them together, like the United States, either the United States federal government, the European union, or even maybe even, I doubt a state government would…”