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Podcast with them from October of last year: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule...

(Transcript available, search for and hit the "transcript" button.)

I wonder how they'll do long-term.

> Takeaways: The CTO of Bending Spoons found it completely normal that each team decides on their approach to testing: e.g. more mature products have a lot more automated tests like unit, integration, UI tests in place. New products or less mature ones will still have less.

No shit

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That's actually both funny and sad, I recently used WeTransfer and wondered when their product got so bad. Turns out Bending Spoons bought them about a year ago.

I don't think enough people know about them and their profit-squeezing strategies.

From the article:

> I’ll argue that Komoot is neither a moral failure nor an outlier but the capitalist system of value extraction working exactly as intended for the platform owners.

If it wasn't for Bending Spoons it would have been another private equity firm. It's not about them being particularly evil, it's about living in a system that makes their existence inevitable.