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> So this original company pivoted their business model: they went out to buy these "one hit wonder" software companies, immediately stopped any investment into other products, laid off as many people as possible and outsourced the operations and maintenance of the few successful products to low-cost locales (at the time, India and China) and then essentially just milked the subscription revenue until the product slowly petered out.

well that's just a dreadful experience. Couldn't innovate so they instead became a very alluring anglerfish with no intent to help stimulate the American economy at all. Successful and depressing business model indeed.

Such a shame how little respect tech gets unless we're spamming buzzwords to rich people. really ruined the reputation of "tech will make everyone's lives easier!"



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