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Wouldn't rent and salaries (at least in the SF Bay Area) almost always be vastly more expensive than computation?
by baddox 7y ago
Wouldn't rent and salaries (at least in the SF Bay Area) almost always be vastly more expensive than computation?
- tempsy 7y agoDepends on the company. If it’s a marketplace like Uber then you’re burning a lot of operations. If it’s ML or heavy compute then AWS bills.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoHonestly surprised a bunch of VCs haven't gotten together yet and built out their own compute for portfolio companies considering how much VC money gets shoveled into the AWS fire.
- acdha 7y agoThink about the hundreds of engineers they’d need to hire, purchases for hardware and software, security approvals, etc. that would all need to be spent up front with no guarantee that it’d actually be cheaper. Beating the major cloud providers requires some combination of large scale and/or cutting corners and most companies are not at the point where the infrastructure costs beat the staff time needed.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoI used to do ops, costing for infra, build out datacenters, I’m aware!
- baddox 7y agoThis sort of thing actually does happen, right? Isn’t that basically what WeWork was, but for all the VC money companies are spending on office space?
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