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Patrick McKenzie
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This is good advice generally and *particularly* good advice when you’re in that stage of growth where being the go to X for a platform can materially impact your growth curve.
Addendum to it: get to know actual named humans at the platform company. Every program is made out of people; good relations will keep you at the top of the list (metaphorical or absolutely literal) and probably help you get better terms than they’d offer by default.
And if you are heavily platform dependent and something goes wrong you want to be able to place a phone call to God rather than sending an email to /dev/null.
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Patrick McKenzie
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Oh these are some quality poems from an old folks’ home, with winking humor:

I’ve always had a thing for older men
Such a pity then
That they’re all dead.
3 hours at hospital.
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In a sign of the times, my mom (previously a teacher, deeply skeptical of entrepreneurship for family history reasons) started an Amazon FBA business as an alternative to a part-time job in retirement.
She has apparently watched 100+ hours of YouTube videos to prepare for this. “It’s much quicker than calling the Secretary is State and asking them how to file an assumed name application and YouTube is infinitely patient.” (Mom has hearing/etc challenges.)
Her problems so far have been convincing Amazon that she’s legit (imagine a low-computer-literacy user running into a KYC problem and expecting this to be resolved by explaining herself to a human) and getting a bank account for the business.
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I think partially one should avoid this as professional courtesy, partially “We’re all in this against the barbarians”, and partially “Please do not increase perception of business risk by other security teams who may need to disclose something which you need to know.”
And there’s a real value in having industry-wife collusion here by technical and security leadership against the business side of the house, says someone who deeply appreciates all sides.
“I have to disclose because all of our customers, vendors, and prospective employees expect me to disclose” is an argument you want your peers to be able to make!
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