Grass stage team travels the world

Over the years, I have seen too many seemingly strong professional teams, but the grass stage team has fallen behind. So some people put forward the theory of grass stage team, that is, this world is originally so many grass stage teams running together.

U.S. troops retreat to Afghanistan, Biden is incompetent

In August 2021, U.S. troops will withdraw from Afghanistan. The whole process was rushed and embarrassing, and even the weapons were too late to take away. U.S. President Joe Biden has been widely criticized at home and among allies for his hasty troop withdrawal, which has also led to the failure of the Afghan security forces that the U.S. military has trained and funded for years. He walked in a hurry, leaving a spot of chicken feathers behind. Regardless of the U.S. military's strategy, the specific withdrawal tactics are a complete mess and completely unprofessional.

Facebook's small mistake caused the network to be disconnected, and Xiao Zha was busy apologizing for losing money

In October 2021, Facebook and its two social and instant messaging platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, were globally down for more than 6 hours. Affected by the outage, Facebook’s market value evaporated by $64.3 billion overnight. Cisco's Internet Analytics unit said its testing indicated the outage was due to persistent DNS failures. Jonathan Zeitlin, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, put it this way: "Facebook basically locked the keys in the car." The outage is said to be due to routine maintenance Caused by an incorrect instruction.

The wolf of Wall Street with empty gloves, also dare to call "Jobs"

In 2003, Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos blood testing company. In 2014, the Edison blood tester with patented technology was launched, and it said that its innovative detection technology can realize painless pointer blood test. It only needs a drop of blood to perform 240 medical tests, ranging from cholesterol to cancer. , and the tested person can get the test result after 4 hours, and the cost of each test is only $2.99. Because of this testing project, which can be called a medical miracle, Theranos subsequently completed a total of 400 million US dollars in financing in less than a year, and its company valuation also soared to 9 billion US dollars. Holmes even in 2014. Directly on the Forbes rich list, he was also crowned the title of "Female Jobs".

Until October 2015, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Theranos' test results were extremely inaccurate, and found that the company's so-called Edison testers were just some of the common instruments available on the market. The "medical miracle" of this blood test for cancer was disillusioned. Theranos was disbanded in 2018 after several struggles, and Holmes was also prosecuted for fraud.

The surprising thing about this story is that it was the smartest Wall Street venture capitalist who was deceived this time. Theranos has never made any testing equipment, and Pure Fudge has been so successful. It's amazing that these investment companies have never seen Theranos' equipment before investing, let alone in his testing lab[^1]. such as investing

Dan Mosley, who had invested $6 million, also wrote a warm thank you letter to Elizabeth for giving him the opportunity to invest. All of these are different.

The epidemic is raging and people are in chaos, and the grass stage team competes for short and long

The challenges brought by the two-year-old new crown epidemic to countries. In everyone's mind, there should be several alternative grass stage teams. The British government's early response to the epidemic has been controversial. Former Health Secretary Hancock, as a political star rising in the epidemic, engaged in an office extramarital affair, which was caught on video, and his future was ruined. This was followed by the exposure of the corrupt parts of his reign. Hancock is also said to be linked to the testing labs that later caused 43,000 false negative Covid-19 reports in the west of England. The laboratory is a temporary testing laboratory for Covid 19 established in response to the needs of the outbreak. As an industry with high demand, a testing laboratory without much technical content has attracted a large number of private enterprises. In the context of poor regulation, such a large area of erroneous testing is completely unexpected.

this is the truth

From the government, large enterprises, and various places, there will be all kinds of messed up deeds by grass-roots teams. I believe that you must have met the grass stage team in your life, and seen the big bosses who are famous but actually difficult to match. Therefore, to understand the world, you must know the existence of the grass stage team. When you can't see him, he just happens to be fine.

This is reality.

How to deal with this grass-roots world

After recognizing the reality, how do we deal with this world of grass-roots teams?

First, we shouldn't be disappointed. Because there are so many grass stage teams, we have to be more courageous. In a market where one company dominates, a small company with limited resources is entirely possible to beat its opponents. Back then, Apple, in the personal computer market occupied by IBM, could still make epoch-making products and break the "1984" world held by the "Big Brother". In the technology industry, many new technology giants emerged after 2000. In addition to opening up new directions, many of them defeated the flourishing companies at that time. Google Search beats Yahoo, Facebook beats Myspace, Instagram beats Flickr. The opponent is not necessarily the grass-stage team, but it is the opponent's performance like the grass-stage team that the new company has a chance.

Secondly, we should also more clearly recognize the essence of the grass stage team. Sometimes, there are unavoidable reasons for the formation of grass-stage teams. Grass stage team, also according to the time and place. Many teams are marked as grass, and sometimes it is bad luck. Many grass stage teams often have a glorious past. For most people, someone who excels in one area naturally expects him to excel in every other area. But this assumption is too wishful thinking. This has also created many so-called "grass teams". The reason for their poor performance is likely to be entering unfamiliar territory. After all, a person who breaks through his comfort zone has a greatly reduced chance of success. A person who has seen through the grass stage team is still willing to stand for it, either with interests or a deep understanding of this. In addition to the government, there must be a little tolerance for other grassroots teams.

Finally, the existence of the grass stage team also shows that the seemingly powerful, in fact, sometimes is vulnerable. There are differences in human intelligence, but this is not necessarily the key to success. If you have the courage and dare to try, you may be successful.

[^1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/technology/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-investors-diligence.html