Anish Acharya(@illscience):the nuance to making this work is you need a dramatic efficiency gain in a narrow, repeatable area - say a 90% improvement for 5% of the operating surface, and then you expand from there the failure pattern from the "tech enabled services" era was modest efficiency improvements across the entire organization, offset by the difficulty of a software founder running a traditional business

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Anish Acharya@illscience

2026.05.11 20:49

the nuance to making this work is you need a dramatic efficiency gain in a narrow, repeatable area - say a 90% improvement for 5% of the operating surface, and then you expand from there the failure pattern from the "tech enabled services" era was modest efficiency improvements across the entire organization, offset by the difficulty of a software founder running a traditional business