A startup worrying about long term cloud implications is like a hot dog vendor in new York worrying about how his branding will be received in India when his ho

A startup worrying about long term cloud implications is like a hot dog vendor in new York worrying about how his branding will be received in India when his hot dog empire expands there. 99.99% of startups will never have to worry about migrating off cloud, and if they do, they will have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and will be once sequential. Nobody is losing sleep over the prospect that their startup will only be worth 22.4 billion in 17 years, but if they eschewed the cloud and built in efficiencies from the get go the company would be worth 23.7 billion. Not to mention the fact that worrying about long term things like that would take focus off the present and in tease chances of failure.