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Re: Why we lost Uber as a user

Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>

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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-03T13:58:39Z
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> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:29 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 
> 
> Honestly the take-away I see in the Uber story is that they apparently
> had nobody on staff that was on -hackers or apparently even -general
> and tried to go it alone rather than involve experts from outside
> their company. As a result they misdiagnosed their problems based on
> prejudices seeing what they expected to see rather than what the real
> problem was.
> 

+1 very true. 

At the same time there are some lessons to be learned. At the very least putting in big bold letters where to come for help is one.

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