Based on what Max has written, I think it'd be obvious why he doesn't want to say what he does - it would potentially ruin his business.
Max has made it very clear that what he's doing isn't particularly complicated, difficult or innovative. It seems clear to me that that the value he creates is in identifying and targeting specific underexploited niches. I imagine that he has spent a lot of time and money on identifying these niches. If my assumption is correct, it'd be commercial suicide to give away almost all of the value in his business to a baying mob of smart, fast entrepreneurs.
We like openness in this community, often for very good reasons, but I think we do tend to fetishise it. I think we often forget that secrecy is the norm in business and our penchant for publishing sensitive business data is seen as very odd by the majority of businesspeople. There are often compelling business reasons to keep certain things private and I think it's unfair to infer guilt from silence.
I think it's unfair to expect people to respect his desire to not have anyone probe into his business when he's braying DHH style about the money he's making on his business model and the trips he makes to Bangkok so that he can spend a month in a 5-star hotel, something myself and no one else I know personally has even done yet in their entire lives thus far.
So yeah, if he keeps poking his head out the hole like this, the axe is going to come down. At this point I'd be willing to bet there's at least a handful of people here who'd like to eat his lunch just for being so arrogant.
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Based on what Max has written, I think it'd be obvious why he doesn't want to say what he does - it would potentially ruin his business.
Max has made it very clear that what he's doing isn't particularly complicated, difficult or innovative. It seems clear to me that that the value he creates is in identifying and targeting specific underexploited niches. I imagine that he has spent a lot of time and money on identifying these niches. If my assumption is correct, it'd be commercial suicide to give away almost all of the value in his business to a baying mob of smart, fast entrepreneurs.
We like openness in this community, often for very good reasons, but I think we do tend to fetishise it. I think we often forget that secrecy is the norm in business and our penchant for publishing sensitive business data is seen as very odd by the majority of businesspeople. There are often compelling business reasons to keep certain things private and I think it's unfair to infer guilt from silence.
I think it's unfair to expect people to respect his desire to not have anyone probe into his business when he's braying DHH style about the money he's making on his business model and the trips he makes to Bangkok so that he can spend a month in a 5-star hotel, something myself and no one else I know personally has even done yet in their entire lives thus far.
So yeah, if he keeps poking his head out the hole like this, the axe is going to come down. At this point I'd be willing to bet there's at least a handful of people here who'd like to eat his lunch just for being so arrogant.
If you want secrecy, shut up.