{"id":53,"date":"2007-12-02T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/12\/02\/pride-goes-before-the-fall\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:40:59","slug":"pride-goes-before-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/pride-goes-before-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride goes before the fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an entrepreneurial lesson in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2007\/12\/how-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-can-save-his-reputation-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">current Facebook dustup<\/a>:\u00a0 hubris can quickly lead to trouble.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fine line between confidence and arrogance.\u00a0 Confident companies know what they&#8217;re going to do, and they do it.\u00a0 Arrogant companies take it a step further and make it about proving something.<\/p>\n<p>Arrogance is trouble because it kills the fan base.\u00a0 Companies and entrepreneurs, like sports teams and rock bands, need fans to be successful.\u00a0 Even famously arrogant companies like Google and Wal-Mart treat their user-customers well, and when they mess up, they usually attempt to make it right.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is in the middle of pissing off all the fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an entrepreneurial lesson in the current Facebook dustup:\u00a0 hubris can quickly lead to trouble. There&#8217;s a fine line between confidence and arrogance.\u00a0 Confident companies know what they&#8217;re going to do, and they do it.\u00a0 Arrogant companies take it a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/pride-goes-before-the-fall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}