^As coding skills become commoditized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVNfTHHCXA around 4:50. Context is a video he did on Airbnb, the 2 original founders of which have a design background and hired a third cofounder to do the engineering. The company also employs former Apple exec Johnny Ives' design firm. For those who don't know, Galloway is a prof of marketing at NYU Stern, author, and speaker, famous for his coverage of FAAG (which he dubs the Big 4), and has a history of accurate predictions in tech like Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods. Thoughts?
Pretty sure designers will become irrelevant when some platforms make the process effortless for devs to design.
Lol. Devs can’t design
True but unconventional devs with a design/engineering background can from my experience
I don't think that'll happen for tech companies anytime now. It's hard to build tech products without thinking deeply about the technical implications. Think VMWare, all of the cloud providers etc. But this has already occurred at say insurance companies. There the product team has to come up with new plans based on the law, insurance business SME. They can just give it to engineers to implement. Basically product feasibility not being directly dependent on tech feasibility. In that case engineering gets commoditized. This will happen at tech companies when the tech is so matured that there are just minor improvements. Example would be building printers etc.
Also I'd say take what he says with some filter. He's very opinionated. At the start of the pandemic, he'd said lot of Democrats will move to Florida and turn it blue.
Sure, let them handle the Sev-2s then
Another marketer who thinks marketing and sales is everything and those nerds are going on about stuff no one cares about. This guy on twitter recently said you should constantly be upgrading your friends to be better. I think this is what he's REALLY doing: https://observer.com/2017/02/i-helped-create-the-milo-trolling-playbook-you-should-stop-playing-right-into-it/
He is talking about designers, not marketing and sales
By the way, I've read my third Galloway article but can't find what you're talking about. Link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVNfTHHCXA around 4:50. Updated post to include this.
He's saying that having a good designer on the founding team will be increasingly more important than having a developer. That will change the dynamic of power in SV maybe slightly (devs will still have power) but it won't mean good devs won't still be in high demand.
That guy has history of making more lots of wrong predictions
True. I think he takes more pride in the wrong ones (Tesla) but he definitely nails a few things. Thanks for the work on WeWork, Professor G!
I think this guy will become obsolete before his prediction comes true
lol
Yeah right....
He has got a good sense of humor.