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How Figma, which bet on collaborative product design, and Canva, which focuses on helping non-designers excel in marketing design, are succeeding against Adobe

Kevin / kwokchain : Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @jalajboy , and @sachinrekhi Tweets: Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker : Exceptional essay from @kevinakwok Would add that technical debt compounds all of the “entropy” created by rapid changes in customer needs & anytime the abstraction layer changes, the deck gets reshuffled. Also learned what “Kolmogorov Complexity” is. https://kwokchain.com/... Arvind Jha / @jalajboy : cut out, and Wall Street investors uncomfortable with turning a consistent business into a high risk venture" Its not that everyone was asleep at the wheel. Blockbuster didn't know how to protect the young initiatives from mature ones. https://kwokchain.com/... Sachin Rekhi / @sachinrekhi : Fantastic essay from @kevinakwok on the idea of atomic concepts and how differing atomic concepts enable you to compete effectively against incumbents like Adobe. A worthwhile thought exercise to figure out your startups own atomic concepts. https://kwokchain.com/...

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  • @gavinsbaker Gavin Baker on x
    Exceptional essay from @kevinakwok Would add that technical debt compounds all of the “entropy” created by rapid changes in customer needs & anytime the abstraction layer changes, the deck gets reshuffled. Also learned what “Kolmogorov Complexity” is. https://kwokchain.com/...
  • @jalajboy Arvind Jha on x
    cut out, and Wall Street investors uncomfortable with turning a consistent business into a high risk venture" Its not that everyone was asleep at the wheel. Blockbuster didn't know how to protect the young initiatives from mature ones. https://kwokchain.com/...
  • @sachinrekhi Sachin Rekhi on x
    Fantastic essay from @kevinakwok on the idea of atomic concepts and how differing atomic concepts enable you to compete effectively against incumbents like Adobe. A worthwhile thought exercise to figure out your startups own atomic concepts. https://kwokchain.com/...