Cal Henderson
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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But really the thing I think that has set the Bay Area apart historically for technology companies has been the massive supportive network you have around you of people who are either going through the same thing as you, went through it recently, or are about to go through it.
And because there's this strong
network of support around you, while every company is different and the journey and how they approach things and the problems that they have are unique, there are people who have been through similar things.
And I think one of the, especially as organizations grow, those kind of resources of understanding, you know, the the pros and cons of what you could be doing, the different choices that you have, are very rarely going to come internally from within a company.
If you're going through that growth, it can be quite isolating.
But having that network of people around you who are, you know, like who have who have done it, who are encouraging, who are helpful and supportive, and having that net having that support net is huge.
And I think that's one of historically that's been one of the big advantages to the Bay Area is finding finding other people who have who have done it at a greater scale or went faster.
The success stories, but also the failure stories of understanding what did people do that really didn't work out and in what ways didn't it work out and what are the things you can do
to avoid that.
And so I think that tradition of learning, sharing failures, learning from failures and celebrating them, because when a company fails at doing something, when something goes really badly, it's it should be a learning point, you know, and it's a learning that you can share with people to avoid to avoid them going through exactly the same thing.
Yeah, I I think that's hugely important, especially as in
Don't mean this to sound, you know, diminutive, but especially in smaller regions of the world where the tech industry is smaller, where it's not like everybody you know has a startup, then finding that network can be really difficult.
And I think that, you know, as
Things are changing now with more with more and more companies becoming distributed and it not really being centered around geography quite so much, although I think that's gonna take a decade to change really substantially.
Having that network is hugely important, whether it's people who have that experience and and can give you those useful insights, or just people to commiserate with because they're going through the same thing, you know, and feeling like you're not not so alone in it because it it can just be isolating.
There's this huge channel of feedback, whether it's positive, negative, indifferent, that I think any organization building a product for end users is crazy if they're not tapping that stream of feedback.
You don't just have to convince somebody to give Slack a try.
You have to convince somebody to convince their co-workers to give Slack a try.
It's not valuable using it by yourself.
There's no like solo mode.
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