A 'Fuck You' in this instance is ignoring regulations that have been in place for years preventing outside competition. This is the 'disrupt' startup model.
It works well when you have lots of capital to expand and fight lawsuits.
warthog•43m ago
what do you mean by regulations? Those that benefitted Uber or?
Supermancho•20m ago
Taxis. This is obvious, having read the blog and post together.
Spivak•19m ago
Disagree, the author is using Fuck You as a proxy for customer pain. Fuck You taxi industry works because people hate taxis. Fuck You hotels worked because people hate hotels. Fuck You Google works (in terms of llms) works because Google results became shit.
Identifying industries where people begrudgingly accept the status quo because they need the service but hate everything about how it's provided is your opportunity.
rightbyte•7m ago
> people hate hotels.
Was this the case though?
Airbnb and hotels.com and the likes have been pushing the hotels towards a race to the bottom but actual hotels are not bad in my experience. Small quasi-hotels with ordinary flats that run like a estate get rich quick scheme are though.
andy99•14m ago
Yeah too many of the examples seem to be just that. It’s no true for all “disruptive” startups, it’s not always even bad, but it’s a different play than just solving a problem in a new way.
- Uber is an end-run around existing taxi monopolies (imo a good thing), plus I believe taking advantage of people’s inability to think longer term about depreciation on their vehicle when calculating earnings.
- crypto is an end-run around securities regulations. It’s not a payment system it’s an investment scam that would be illegal if used with other financial instruments
- a vast swath of big tech is profitable on the back of not providing customer service or recourse of any kind and just automating business without regard for edge cases (not necessarily regulation but formerly a requirement for a business to participate in society)
billy99k•1h ago
It works well when you have lots of capital to expand and fight lawsuits.
warthog•43m ago
Supermancho•20m ago
Spivak•19m ago
Identifying industries where people begrudgingly accept the status quo because they need the service but hate everything about how it's provided is your opportunity.
rightbyte•7m ago
Was this the case though?
Airbnb and hotels.com and the likes have been pushing the hotels towards a race to the bottom but actual hotels are not bad in my experience. Small quasi-hotels with ordinary flats that run like a estate get rich quick scheme are though.
andy99•14m ago
- Uber is an end-run around existing taxi monopolies (imo a good thing), plus I believe taking advantage of people’s inability to think longer term about depreciation on their vehicle when calculating earnings.
- crypto is an end-run around securities regulations. It’s not a payment system it’s an investment scam that would be illegal if used with other financial instruments
- a vast swath of big tech is profitable on the back of not providing customer service or recourse of any kind and just automating business without regard for edge cases (not necessarily regulation but formerly a requirement for a business to participate in society)