The point is that if there are only one or two red flags, you can risk assess them and continue as is if the risk is low. But if there are a large number of red flags, then you need to consider your exit strategy as well.
I don’t wait for companies to enshittify anymore. When they start making decisions that look like they’re heading in that direction, I start looking for alternatives.
yet. The hallmarks of enshittification are there. We've all been through the cycle of "this product is too good to be true, and provides considerably more value than it costs" "Customer Acquisition/Market Capture" phase. And we know what has to come next. They have to make the product profitable, because you cant just burn up VC money forever.
Red flags are always speculative.
The point is that if there are only one or two red flags, you can risk assess them and continue as is if the risk is low. But if there are a large number of red flags, then you need to consider your exit strategy as well.
PE's entire modus operandi is enshittification. If there's no enshittification to be done there would be no point in purchasing the company
I don’t wait for companies to enshittify anymore. When they start making decisions that look like they’re heading in that direction, I start looking for alternatives.
Same. Whenever I see a PE acquisition, I immediately shift my purchases (eg namecheap last year)
It has already enshitified. These changes are text book.
- Inclusion and Transparency values made more shitty
- Always free commitment removed. What? It’s right there “always”.
- Shittily hacking old blog post to become nonsensical
- Loss of confidence
- Stalling improvement cycle, no more repairs, just things quietly breaking and going bad.
Looks pretty bad regardless of speculation. There are enough red flags to warrant actions and to consider this another enshitification.
yet. The hallmarks of enshittification are there. We've all been through the cycle of "this product is too good to be true, and provides considerably more value than it costs" "Customer Acquisition/Market Capture" phase. And we know what has to come next. They have to make the product profitable, because you cant just burn up VC money forever.
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Interesting, where are you from? Where does this proverb come from?
I know this proverb as (translating from Polish): You're asking the boar if he's shitting in the forest.
It's an extremely common phrase in the US, along with "Is the Pope Catholic?" Sometimes the two phrases are humorously mixed together.
I've never heard it mixed (not from US)...
"Is bear a Catholic?" doesn't seem very funny.
But a notion that everyone knows how Pope is regularly shitting in the woods absolutely is :)
We say "are bears Catholic?" when in more polite company and we can't get away with asking if the Pope shits in the woods :)