{"id":410,"date":"2006-06-15T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2006-06-15T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T04:29:30","slug":"37-signals-in-a-continuous-search-for-more-sharks-to-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/37-signals-in-a-continuous-search-for-more-sharks-to-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"37 signals &#8211; in a continuous search for more sharks to jump."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another completely ridiculous statement from the guys at 37signals <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/archives2\/gates_plans_his_exit_from_microsoft_whats_next.php?41\">today<\/a> regarding Microsoft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I predict major layoffs within <strike>12-18<\/strike> 24 months. Upwards of 10-20%. MS needs to light a fire and get lean and they know it. The market knows it too and would love to see it happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After a number of comments describing how absurd a prediction that is (including, I like to think, <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/archives2\/gates_plans_his_exit_from_microsoft_whats_next.php?41#comments\">mine<\/a>) Jason from 37s ups his prediction of Microsoft layoffs from 1-1 1\/2 years to 2 years.  Either way, he&#8217;s being ridiculous.  They continue to speak like complete amateurs, while using the traditional tech-pundit tone.  If I didn&#8217;t love the Ruby on Rails community so much, I would have unsubscribed from this blog long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another completely ridiculous statement from the guys at 37signals today regarding Microsoft: I predict major layoffs within 12-18 24 months. Upwards of 10-20%. MS needs to light a fire and get lean and they know it. The market knows it too and would love to see it happen. After a number of comments describing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-6C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}