2000/05/12

Are you a Ben and Jerry’s company or an Amazon company?

In Strategy Letter I, I talk about two different kinds of startups. If you don’t know which one you are, you’re going to make lots of mistakes and you won’t even know why.

Sometimes, my kind readers resort to tricks to find out if I’m awake! Like this suggestion from Hanan. It sounds good at first, but after a minute you realize it might be a minefield.

About the author.

In 2000 I co-founded Fog Creek Software, where we created lots of cool things like the FogBugz bug tracker, Trello, and Glitch. I also worked with Jeff Atwood to create Stack Overflow and served as CEO of Stack Overflow from 2010-2019. Today I serve as the chairman of the board for Stack Overflow, Glitch, and HASH.