Maybe, but how do they respond to the followup “Nice! How?”
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Veedem@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 10 hours ago
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 10 hours 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 9 hours ago
Why would it not get asked? It’s the most obvious, logical followup
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 hours 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 9 hours 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 9 hours 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 9 hours ago
This is a good one: lemmy.world/post/41564641
Amazon also got in trouble for auto enrolling people in prime.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours 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.