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If your all-star engineering team is tied up by the 25mil/year business, you may need their attention urgently refocused on the core product. In theory they cou
by zapita 7y ago
If your all-star engineering team is tied up by the 25mil/year business, you may need their attention urgently refocused on the core product. In theory they could recruit a replacement team and hand off the business, but that also takes time and attention.
- inerte 7y agoAgreed, and just to expand, not only the engineers, but ops, infrastructure maintenance, customer support, sales, rent, HR, legal, recruiters, translators, the IT guy that keeps the TVs with Zoom working, and the list goes on and on and on. Some of these people are full time on the project, some are part-time, some are shared costs, some are not, but sometimes it's totally worth to shed the $25mil/year and re-focus on something else.