“You have died of dysentery.”
It’s a line Mark Walz at SpotOn likes to say, referencing the 1970s computer game “Oregon Trail,” where you navigate your settler through the challenges of a cross-country trek from Missouri to Oregon, hoping to avoid a snakebite, a broken arm or the game’s most classic death of all, dysentery.
But for SpotOn’s chief technology officer, the line is an analogy for hypergrowth.
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