Maybe, but how do they respond to the followup “Nice! How?”
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Veedem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They probably need to show investors that the money spent developing it is worth it. “We’ve added X amount of users this quarter alone!”
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2 weeks ago
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s probably not a question that’ll get asked, unfortunately. What will get asked is why those numbers dropped off abruptly the next quarter.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2 weeks ago
Why would it not get asked? It’s the most obvious, logical followup
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
As a shareholder, you are financially incentivised to not question narratives the company presents if they supposedly present the company in a good light.
Suppose you do ask, the narrative unravels and the share price tanks. Congrats, you’ve just lost a buttload of money. Why would you do that?
No, best option is to applaud loudly, tout it in the press and watch useful idiots buy your shares at inflated prices.
The people who do ask the questions are the people the company doesn’t feel obliged to answer.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Not usually. These people tend to be really stupid. There’s a reason why businesses degrees are made fun of so much.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2 weeks ago
I mean, do you have any examples of companies trying to pull this? Where they automigrate one base of users to another tier of whatever it may be, and then successfully pretend it was organic growth?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.
The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
This is a good one: lemmy.world/post/41564641
Amazon also got in trouble for auto enrolling people in prime.
verdi@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Microslop and automigration to the copilot containing 365 sub rather than the default lower priced sub.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It worked for Microsoft. The month after they started to force install Teams in windows they published user numbers showing how teams had sprinted ahead of Slack by that metric, and the tech press mostly ate it up.