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> Then compare that to the number of successful businesses with absolutely junk tech that do silly things like appear in the S&P 500

And now look at the few firms at the top who broke the 1T barrier. All tech focused, almost all lead by engineering and engineers at the top.




These are actually all great examples of real "tech first" businesses that do compete and win on the basis of (among other things) the quality of their code. My point was that Under Armor, which is also on the S&P 500, sells a lot of clothes online and every dollar they save on software they can spend on R&D for fabrics etc. which is what they actually sell. I would bet that an hour long meeting with 5 software engineers and a PM so "we can agree about nested ternaries" costs as much or more than a day of prototype garment work on a new pair of socks.




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