Consumers have voted over and over and over and they are very clear: The vast majority will choose cheap vs good

Commodity products win in the long term and “better” products that are more expensive will go out of business

conartist6 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah the real holy grail is a product that's both cheaper and better. If we're still climbing the ladder of abstraction, over time it does become possible to build products both cheaper and better.

	▲	LiquidSky 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But who cares about the long term when you could make a killing this year or even just this quarter and walk away with a fortune.

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disgruntledphd2 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Consumers have voted over and over and over and they are very clear: The vast majority will choose cheap vs good

Snowflake customers have definitely not made this choice, as Snowflake is good but very, very expensive. They're basically the Oracle of cloud.

	▲	AndrewKemendo 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Isn’t Oracle the oracle of cloud? And this still fits, if snowflake is feeling pressure from lower cost entrants or demand from investors for more profit then it would track I don’t necessarily disagree that it’s a risk but people assume that companies optimize for product stickiness but in fact they don’t, most companies optimize for investor relationships