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Five Lessons from the most successful startup of all time – Christianity

by CalmStorm on 6/18/23, 6:34 PM with 9 comments

• by ajuc on 6/18/23, 7:53 PM

  0. find a big customer you can ride on

  For Christianity it was Roman Empire and keeping slaves pacified. Then they pivoted to medieval kings and keeping serfs pacified.

  For Microsoft it was producing DOS for IBM.

• by yawpitch on 6/18/23, 8:42 PM

  5. Embrace vaporware; sell a promise to the living, ship your product only to the dead.

• by shove on 6/19/23, 2:06 AM

  This kind of thing is clever, but really gross (and I’m not even a Christian anymore). Someone needs to revisit the story of Table-Flippin’ Whip-Wieldin’ Jesus because the lesson sure didn’t take the first time.

• by svilen_dobrev on 6/18/23, 7:42 PM

  reminds of that "History of the world" movie..

  - Here you have the 15 commandmends - (dropping one slab) ahh shit - the 10 commandmends...