When our CEO told me we were moving to "the cloud," no amount of financial or technical explanation would convince him. It was entirely about chasing VC dollar

When our CEO told me we were moving to "the cloud," no amount of financial or technical explanation would convince him. It was entirely about chasing VC dollars and converting CAPEX into OPEX. VCs hate CAPEX, and previous fundraising rounds at our previous venture highlighted our large CAPEX due to millions of dollars of physical hardware as a major turnoff. So, I retired perfectly good 3-year-old servers that were fully amortized and replaced them with 4x as many instances, and brought up our monthly infrastructure spend by 10X. 10X! But at least now the VCs are happy.