The newsroom Borrowed leverage: partners, resellers, and the myth of ‘direct’ When someone says ‘go direct’, I always ask, ‘Direct to what?’ Photo by Mark König / Unsplash
When good top-down structure is on the other side People say, ‘I’m talking with AWS’. It sounds grown-up. It also hides the only thing that matters: you are talking with a human being who has a job title, a quota, and a limited amount of power.