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aabhay ◴[] No.34490445[source]
In enterprise, it’s often the case that your biggest customer effectively owns you. They get to dictate roadmaps, you’re forced to spin up a special team just for them, and it becomes harder to justify your investment into long tail customers because this big golden monkey is on your back.
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throwawaysleep ◴[] No.34491532[source]
The long tail also requires support and that doesn't scale well. At one of my jobs, the rule is basically that any company under around 5K-10K ARR (it is arbitrary) doesn't get any real support and just gets strung along until they quit, as giving any developer time to their issues makes them unprofitable.
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