Readit NewsDuo Security (in Ann Arbor) and Plex Systems (Troy) are the two 'Metro Detroit' anchors - pure software companies doing over $100 million+ in recurring SaaS revenue.
I was thinking to myself - who is #3-5 for SaaS in Detroit?
I live in Detroit. It’s a city that has been pushed to the edge of oblivion... and then into oblivion for several decades. It's fantastic that thers investment, but at the same time, stuff like this feels so incredibly patronizing. "It's nicer than San Francisco!" Yes, there are, in fact, nice buildings outside of San Francisco, even in Detroit.
Midwestern cities don't exist solely to make money, and I'm rather disturbed that they're seen more and more as nothing but investment vehicles. Detroit is 80% black. We didn’t even have working street lights until a few years ago (shout out to the Public Lighting Authority). I just look at San Francisco and the entire Bay Area, and I think to myself: "we don't want that here". Detroit isn't just cheap rent and exposed brick. It's grit and soul and pain and culture and 300+ years of history. I'm sure these investors got a lovely tour. Did they talk about the 1967 riots? Did they show them northwest Detroit, where entire city blocks are basically becoming urban prairie? Did they talk to the regular folks living and working in the city for generations? They’re lovely people, and they live here too. They're as much a part of Detroit as the Madison Building or New Center or Dan Gilbert or the rotting houses or the rich history.
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> Excelling at his work, Land said, requires an obsessive focus on it
"I excel at my work."
> But maintaining that passion — especially with his fourth child on the way — means knowing when to detach
"I'm excellent at my job, despite having more kids than average (i.e., probably more family obligations than you). And also, I find time to 'detach'. I'm awesome at my job and find time to chill out."
> relaxing with a glass of wine in the back yard alongside his wife, kids and the family’s 13 chickens and three sheep
"Despite working in Silicon Valley, where a 1100sqft home with no yard costs $2m, I have a wine-worthy backyard with enough grounds even for sheep and chickens."
This just reeks of the I'M ALWAYS WINNING attitude so pervasive in Silicon Valley, buried in an article about chickens ffs.
You could buy roughly 667 acres of land here in Lower Michigan for that much money, which provides plenty of room for wine and chickens. ;)
But either way, this isn’t particularly germane to the conversation, and you could even argue that it wasn’t done intentionally considering that Medium used to be readable.
Anyway, Medium is annoyingly hard to read now, and I’m glad someone’s done something to fix it.
That's the wrong question to ask. You shouldn't have to tell it not to track you. That shouldn't be able to do it, unless you explicitly tell them "hey you can track me."