> What ended up happening with the startup you worked at out of curiosity? We made two poorly judged business decisions: 1) build a marketplace without enough

> What ended up happening with the startup you worked at out of curiosity? We made two poorly judged business decisions: 1) build a marketplace without enough proof of demand, 2) treat certain types of financial instruments as securities ahead of a fed decision that never materialized (I call this the bizzaro-Uber play). Outside of the things we could have controlled, the sector we operated in did not meet its expected growth projections in the aftermath of certain participants not playing nicely. We were acquihired as part of the typical VC risk sharing. The ultimate failure had very little to do with Scala as a tech decision. I was extremely proud of the products we built from an engineering perspective, but I don't credit Scala with that either. The high-performers on the team could have repeated the same technical success with any of the languages I discussed above. Perhaps our hiring was slower than our funding level would have allowed. Perhaps our worse-performing engineers could have contributed more if it was Go or Python. Neither of the alternative realities would have gotten us past the two aforementioned business decisions.