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Cargo Cults

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November 11, 2011
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Cargo Cults

Opening remarks at Ann Arbor Hackathon about magical thinking in technology business.

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November 11, 2011
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Transcript

  1. @trek github.com/trek

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  3. 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011

  4. <3 Ruby

  5. 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011

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  14. cargo culting

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    Em C G G D D7 G D G7 G C D-D7-G

  16. 98%

  17. ALL THAT BUSINESS VALUE AND NOBODY IS CHARGING FOR IT

  18. IDEA PRODUCT

  19. EA PROD

  20. EAPR

  21. GIVEN THAT: HERE IS SOME SHIT WE DO FOR THE

    MAGICOF IT

  22. BUSINESS PLAN

  23. words

  24. JFDI

  25. JFDI

  26. BUSINESS PEOPLE

  27. "We'd like to be ready for an initial A round

    of ~ $10M after a year and we think you'd be the perfect fit for helping us build a product that gets there"

  28. words

  29. words

  30. words

  31. words

  32. words

  33. words

  34. GIVEN THAT: HERE IS SOME SHIT WE DO FOR THE

    MAGICOF IT

  35. "We have to use MongoDB. It's webscale, and we're going

    to be big."

  36. "Node is aysnc, so it'll solve all our problems"

  37. GOOD SHIT. FAST.

  38. <3 Ruby

  39. more ≠ better.

  40. better = better

  41. BUSINESS PEOPLE

  42. TECHNOLOGISTS

  43. BUSINESS SAVVY

  44. BUSINESS SAVVY

  45. words

  46. words

  47. @trek github.com/trek