I missed that on Reddit! (I unsubbed from r/AMA a long time ago). Thanks for sharing, this was a good additional insight. Edited to add: I'm starting to feel like most corporate failures go the same way. Initial success, lavish, ill-advised partying, lack of vision, unexpected lack of continued interest from user base.
Micromanaging is the one thing that will run your company into the ground. If you don't empower your employees to do their jobs, they won't even try to do their jobs, expecting you to handle/change/and make all key decisions. I run into this a lot with my company. Instead of telling me "we want a user interface for our tablets where people can select food items" they say "Create this: I already created a menu app for the guy you fired 2 months ago. We worked hard to go through every single detail and interface aspect. But it wasn't this. Whatever "this" is.
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