At the same time, I hear a lot of people talking up how these companies approach product and engineering, as though they're a template worthy to be followed.
Sometimes out of sheer scale of the domain, they are worth paying attention to. But yes, this is probably way over-indexed on the "it" factor. Nobody's fawning over Groupon's technical leadership, and they probably were at some point.
Snap is recovering from their lowest point and probably rounding in to shape, but at their most hyped period they claimed to be morphing into "a camera company". This probably serves more as a cautionary above all else at this point.
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Sometimes out of sheer scale of the domain, they are worth paying attention to. But yes, this is probably way over-indexed on the "it" factor. Nobody's fawning over Groupon's technical leadership, and they probably were at some point.
Snap is recovering from their lowest point and probably rounding in to shape, but at their most hyped period they claimed to be morphing into "a camera company". This probably serves more as a cautionary above all else at this point.