> They don't actually move with speed, but with haste. All possible corners are cut. This sentence strikes me at my trauma center. The company I'm in is at th

> They don't actually move with speed, but with haste. All possible corners are cut. This sentence strikes me at my trauma center. The company I'm in is at the critical phase of startup. 4 years down the road of hypergrowth, the knowledge gap and quality gap is apparent. But then I realize that corners are cut because of a lack of expert in the area whose authority is recognized. Most experts and brilliant minds have the same idea about the corner cutting. When foundations are designed to be reliable, velocity may jump exponentially, they know. Reliable isolation, version gating, and enablement over service is how they should move, they know. Product design and physical constraint has at least one coupling string, they know. But these people aren't given the authority, not invited into the room where the decisions are made. In the end, those who bring the immediate money prevail over those who bring mere potential of 10x more money. As the article said, hire the best engineers. But what the article miss is to hire the best engineers who is invested, can thrive in the politics of startups and use the attained power to bring everyone to success.