Top all-time · #6003
Flo Crivello
Personal blog · florentcrivello.comstartupsphilosophyai
Flo Crivello's personal blog at florentcrivello.com covers startups, philosophy and ai. Since 2017, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Own the Demand”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Flo Crivello's blog for business and economics essays, including a post on owning demand and a chart on wants versus needs. One commenter called the owning-demand post well explored.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Flo, founder & CEO of Lindy. This is my personal blog, where I muse on philosophy, business strategy, technology, and really anything that catches my fancy.
Most-linked posts?
- Own the Demand4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-22
- The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-04
- Five Promises of Micromobility2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-28
- /wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image3.png2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-01
What Hacker News says?
https://florentcrivello.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image... The chart in the article is nice fuel for the little conspiracy theory I've been internalizing for most of my adult life. Isn't it suspicious, this hard divide between our wants and our needs? Our wants (optional goods, luxuries) have gotten dramatically cheaper over time, an explosion of choice, high speed of innovation, accessible and affordable to a…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image3.png
on “The dictatorship of the articulate”Submitted The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up as a story · 594 points
HN discussion> What do others think about this and how do you deal with this? One word: counter-offer Welcome to the world ( plane? ) of zero-sum games and adversarial strategies! Appealing to fairness doesn't help in this world - because the values and corresponding strategies of your management and yourself are fundamentally adversarial to each other - that is, your delta of profit is their delta of loss. People like to argue…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image3.png
on “Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?”Submitted The dictatorship of the articulate as a story · 305 points
HN discussionThe concept of owning demand is explored really well in this blog post[1]. A good excerpt: > In short, if somebody successfully inserts themselves between you and your customer, they can exercise tremendous control over you, including taking a big chunk of your profits or outright killing you. [1] https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2018/10/22/own-the-dem...
Comment linking /index.php/2018/10/22/own-the-demand/
on “Apple makes billions from Google Search each year”Submitted Co-Founding Considered Harmful as a story · 249 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World as a story · 122 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go West as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Own the Demand as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons to Worry about AGI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heroes Standing on the Shoulders of Giants as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up – Florent Crivello as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted General Magic and Silicon Valley Common Wisdom as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Sells Software at Hardware Prices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Promises of Micromobility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The best companies to start a career in tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Own the Demand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Own the Demand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Promises of Micromobility as a story · 1 points
HN discussion