A thread with a great, swashbuckling startup story from Nigeria. I won't spoil it for you.
Many founders recognize, in Twitter parlance, "this energy."
Many founders recognize, in Twitter parlance, "this energy."
Trying to think of a story that I could tell which would appear in the same genre but this has so many things going for it.
On "Eff it, we have customers to serve, let's get creative":
I was once asked to write a disaster plan for delivery of messages in the event Twilio was down. I wrote, quite formally, that "Contingent on the POTS system being down, we will failover to manual human delivery."
I was once asked to write a disaster plan for delivery of messages in the event Twilio was down. I wrote, quite formally, that "Contingent on the POTS system being down, we will failover to manual human delivery."
POTS system being *up*, that is. Not much point in me calling every customer needing a call if calls are down nationwide.
"You were bluffing."
Well I was bluffing with a specially made page in admin to support that workflow and having trained in a call center (my first job).
"You were bluffing."
Well I was bluffing with a specially made page in admin to support that workflow and having trained in a call center (my first job).
Organizing social suasion to convince a counterparty to move faster? Hmm. If it counts, I once resolved one of Google's famous "We'll keep forwarding your messages to /dev/null until you give up" with "Go to google.com slash my-case-study and then find a fixer."
"Banks don't move at startup speeds."
Oh my, the stories. One which is explicitly not related to the current day job: took approximately six weeks to get a business banking account for the Japanese subsidiary of my last company, and (this is an exact count) 123 pages of docs.
Oh my, the stories. One which is explicitly not related to the current day job: took approximately six weeks to get a business banking account for the Japanese subsidiary of my last company, and (this is an exact count) 123 pages of docs.
