This is exactly why the technocratti are not to be trusted with what have traditionally been 'bootstrapped businesses' (aka a normal small business). It's not a

This is exactly why the technocratti are not to be trusted with what have traditionally been 'bootstrapped businesses' (aka a normal small business). It's not an unreasonable thing to burn some random VC's cash with a team of coders working on apps, but stretching that money when you actually have to hire people to do real work that your product depends on is harder, and then once you've settled on hiring people for peanuts, why would you change it? Shareholders won't stand for it, after all.