It is quite interesting to re-read this after the zoom ipo. Zoom built a huge team in China, effectively outsourcing most of the development to lower cost count

It is quite interesting to re-read this after the zoom ipo. Zoom built a huge team in China, effectively outsourcing most of the development to lower cost countries, that gave them leverage in terms of being able to deploy capital more efficiently. There are certainly ways to work around most of the problems the author outlines. They are definitely real problems, same as spending 5x for onshore resources. Ideally you should build onshore teams, if you can spend the money. But if you can not, then do not get discouraged by these problems. Employee churns are not that difficult to mitigate, just matter contracting properly with the employees and providing enough consideration in the contracts.