

After one whole year of being in the dark and another, spent building this software, guess it would have been easy for the team to go for the glimmer of the limelight. We wanted the decision on this to be unanimous. We put the question out for the whole team to discuss: The red pill or the blue pill? The Choice We want to keep building this for the long term. They also believed that the acquisition could accelerate the company's engineering efforts. They wanted to acquire us since Chatwoot is highly complementary to their product offering. Soon enough, we ended up getting on call over the thread. Besides the candid title, the email, we noticed, had also been sent directly from the inbox of a CEO we admired. Amidst all the interesting emails, the one titled “Selling Chatwoot?”, particularly caught our attention. The last two weeks had been pretty busy for us - juggling between managing our inboxes with a ton of exploratory emails from VC firms and receiving user feedback. The Backstory "Saw you guys on HackerNews, how would the word ‘exit’ sound next to your resume?" It’s a metaphor symbolizing a choice between the “red pill”, representing a life of harsh knowledge and brutal truth of reality contrary to the “blue pill”, a life of luxurious security and tranquil happiness.

Bush was transformed overnight into a wartime president by the Sept. presidents are often confronted with unexpected situations which force them to alter their agendas.įormer President Jimmy Carter was forced to react to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Tehran discarded any semblance of complying with international restrictions on uranium enrichment and plowed ahead with plans to build a nuclear weapon. Biden with a list of demands to be met in order for him to de-escalate. Putin massed 100,000 troops across from Ukraine and presented Mr. Meanwhile, China, Russia and Iran were otherwise occupied.Ĭhina began a broad nuclear breakout, to possibly quadruple the numbers and types of its nuclear weapons. Throughout 2021, the Biden defense team prioritized initiatives like tracking down extremism in the ranks, ensuring the electrification of military vehicle fleets or providing transgender surgery for military members. This was a “Climate Adaptation Plan” describing how the Pentagon will “take bold steps to accelerate adaptation to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change.” Biden’s first budget request grew the budget of every federal department by an average of 16% - except for Defense and Homeland Security their proposed budgets did not even keep pace with 2% inflation, much less today’s runaway prices. While the 24-page document mentioned climate change 14 times, it was oddly silent about “quaint” national security topics such as the Navy or Army. His March interim national security guidance was long on slogans like “America is back” and “Diplomacy is back” but lacked specifics. Unfortunately, the signals so far suggest Mr. However, if he takes the “red pill,” these reports will acknowledge that America needs a stronger military to reinforce our diplomacy and keep in check the likes of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in check.
