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Am I crazy, or is the answer "Nothing"? The product was built, they just couldn't sell it fast enough. Engineering culture had nothing to do with this failure.
by l2silver 5y ago
Am I crazy, or is the answer "Nothing"? The product was built, they just couldn't sell it fast enough. Engineering culture had nothing to do with this failure.
And if they had landed one of those big clients, they would be kicking ass. You never know how it is going to go. Sometimes you go after the small sales and die. Sometimes you go after the big ones and live.
- digianarchist 5y ago>And if they had landed one of those big clients, they would be kicking ass. I think there lies the problem. You need to work up to acquiring those customers.
- zild3d 5y ago> Engineering culture had nothing to do with this failure. Why keep hiring so many engineers when they aren't needed yet? Sounds like a cultural issue to continue hiring so aggressively when it's only resulting in way higher burn than you can support
- ben7799 5y agoHow big is big? If they landed a "big client" and it was a $5-10M/yr account that doesn't sound like it would have enabled them to survive. Even if they had landed Amazon that one client would not have paid enough to make this business work when you look at their numbers.