
Protocols are the plumbing of the internet. Most of the protocols we use today were developed decades ago by academia and government. Since then, protocol development mostly stopped as energy shifted to developing proprietary systems like social networks and messaging apps.
… plainness that’s more difficult for those on the inside. Not to imply they agree with any of this. Since my departure, I’ve watched CEOs like Elon Musk voraciously and successfully defend their companies against criticism, and contrasted that against my own style of letting the haters hate and writing it off as temporary noise, and realized that the choice had served Groupon poorly. So I’m trying to make up for that.