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When the goals of the customers and the goals of the company are at odds, things will never work out long term.

But I disagree that the continuous growth model is the cause, although I certainly believe that it frequently adds fuel to the fire (growing a company when it's making a loss on a per customer basis frequently leads to accelerating death spirals as well as all manner of desperate measures).




> But I disagree that the continuous growth model is the cause,

When is the last time you've heard a company evaluated on profits (the actual measure of a successful business) and not on growth (of random metrics)?


Public benefit corporations (like Bluesky) can be run like that.




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