First of all, this is a typical example of survivorship bias: look, we picked exciting tech and we've succeeded. The point of using 'boring tech' was never to s

First of all, this is a typical example of survivorship bias: look, we picked exciting tech and we've succeeded. The point of using 'boring tech' was never to state that everyone should stay away from new/exciting things. It's about managing risks. First of all, if you are building a startup, a new service, you already have a ton of risks and unknowns (and excitement) so it makes little sense to top it with untested, new, exciting technology. Unless you have a very good reason. (And no, anticipating to have a huge number of users X years down the road and the perceived need need for super scalability is not a good reason.) The point about using more new tech being good for the adoption of these might be a fair one, but it's completely orthogonal and doesn't need to happen in startups and definitely not at the core of their service/product. Once you do know what you are doing (or what you re doing is not that important) then it's OK to pick exciting technology.