5. But at Bending Spoons, if you want to add something, you have to work really hard to convince leadership. Whereas if you want to cut something and throw it out, you can practically decide on your own 😮 6. Usually companies get to the next level by making something more complex, which typically means POURING new money in, from investors or from profits. 7. But in the Bending Spoons model, getting to the next level means simplifying something instead, and then money starts POURING back out of the company to its owners 🤣 8. And the coolest part: you can only simplify a business that has a good core idea, by stripping away everything that's piled up on top of it ✌️ It's only bad businesses that have to keep getting more complicated just to survive 🤷🏻♂️
✦ Takes identified
Is Bending Spoons' simplification-focused strategy superior to conventional growth-via-complexity?
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You’d be backing YES on “Is Bending Spoons' simplification-focused strategy superior to conventional growth-via-complexity?” — the same side @amoreynis took.
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Where people landed
1 yes · 0 no (casts, from 1 person). These are the classifier’s reading of each cast — not stakes, votes, or a poll.
- yes
5. But at Bending Spoons, if you want to add something, you have to work really hard to convince leadership. Whereas if you want to cut something and throw it out, you can practically decide on your own 😮 6. Usually companies get to the next level by making something more complex, which typically means POURING new money in, from investors or from profits. 7. But in the Bending Spoons model, getting to the next level means simplifying something instead, and then money starts POURING back out of the company to its owners 🤣 8. And the coolest part: you can only simplify a business that has a good core idea, by stripping away everything that's piled up on top of it ✌️ It's only bad businesses that have to keep getting more complicated just to survive 🤷🏻♂️
AI hypothesisOthers argue that successful scaling typically requires adding features and complexity to serve diverse market segments and customer needs.
Nobody has actually argued the other side of this one yet. That is a guess at what they’d say.