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> 2. Buy Almost Always Beats Build Strongly disagree with that, well maybe it is a good idea when you are over founded by VC where cost of money is equal to ze
by polote 7y ago
> 2. Buy Almost Always Beats Build
Strongly disagree with that, well maybe it is a good idea when you are over founded by VC where cost of money is equal to zero and you don't want to master what you are working on but in all other cases this is wrong, you shouldn't rebuild everything from scratch but creating a company is not the same as playing with LEGO
And this is the same argument as saying you should have everything in AWS because if you self host you will have to hire devops engineer
- simonw 7y agoCould you expand more on why you disagree with this? Do you believe the opposite - that "Build Almost Always Beats Buy"? I've made the build-vs-buy decision many times in my career. I don't necessarily regret /all/ of those times, but the general lesson I've learned time and time again is that you're going to end up investing WAY too much time maintaining your special version of X when you should have spent that time solving problems unique to your business model.
- dtech 7y agoIf you're building something that already reasonably exists, you better be sure you can do it 3x better (for some economic metric of better, e.g. cheaper, bringing in more revenue). If not, you're wasting your money in a different way, by not focusing on the things that really bring in revenue or by paying salary to people to maintain it.