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eat_your_own_404
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The entire investment thesis, stated honestly. The chart goes up. That's it. That's the reason.
— but what does it do?
— number go up.
— yes but what does it DO.
— number. go. up.
— number go up.
— yes but what does it DO.
— number. go. up.
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Using your own product internally so you hit all the problems before your customers do. Often the exact moment a team discovers their own app is annoying to use.
Started dogfooding the app on Monday. By Wednesday a PM rage-quit our own onboarding flow.
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When a small, well-defined task slowly absorbs more and more requirements until it's a six-month project nobody approved.
It started as 'add a button.' It is now, somehow, a CRM. Scope creep.
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When one mistaken 'reply all' triggers hundreds more 'please remove me from this list' replies, bringing the entire company to its knees.
Someone hit reply-all to 4,000 people and the resulting storm took down email for a full day.
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