Jason Fried: The next generation bends over

caro:

Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s property of Intuit — the poster-child for the last generation. What a loss. Is that the best the next generation can do? Become part of the old generation? How about kicking the shit out of the old guys? What ever happened to that?

As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies, a whole new generation of change is lost. They can issue press releases saying how excited they are to be able to bring their product to a whole new world of customers, and how their new suitor will bring enormous resources to bear, but we know that’s usually not really what happens. Development slows, products stall, the staff that built the great stuff leaves, and mediocrity creeps in. Not always, but usually.

Perhaps Mint will change Intuit?

Cite Arrow reblogged from caro
26 notes | | Sep 18, 2009
  1. sawickipedia reblogged this from rafer and added:
    Sawickipedia: The last few months? You are too kind Sr. Rafer. Closer to the last 2 years.
  2. rafer reblogged this from tedr and added:
    Rafer sez: Anyone registered 37noise to start parodying those guys yet? They crossed the threshold from self-confident...
  3. lilyb reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    Something about waiting for Godot would fit nicely right here.
  4. dfdeshom reblogged this from caterpillarcowboy and added:
    for me, it’s enough that Mint exists at all. I don’t use it myself (I use yodlee), but I recognize how they’ve opened up...
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  6. tedr reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    tedr: Huh? I had no idea this was a revolution. I surely would have wanted to do something more important than improve...
  7. attentionindustry reblogged this from jayparkinsonmd and added:
    I’m not going to consider a company ‘next generation’ until I see a business plan that doesn’t more or less have ‘get...
  8. karmicgrace reblogged this from caro and added:
    Wah. I love mint the way it is now.
  9. mikehudack reblogged this from caro and added:
    Perhaps Mint will change Intuit?
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