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Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?

• pg 18y ago
  Probably more than you can trust it to your own IT dept.
  • thwarted 18y ago
    In a startup, isn't "IT dept" just another name for "technical co-founder"?
    • eugenejen 18y ago
      Well, then the technical co-founder will spend tons of time doing things such as setting up emails, scanning viruses, looking for intruders to servers, setting up quickbooks. Then you lose man-hours that should be dedicated to your main product/services. I know this because I have been working for 6 startups for 10 years. This is a very common pattern that leads to failure.
      • thwarted 18y ago
        That's true, but I interpreted the word "trust" in terms of capability, not availability.