"startup division" of a big company I used to work at failed because the core business was outsourced to a different company. Our job was basically to get a ver

"startup division" of a big company I used to work at failed because the core business was outsourced to a different company. Our job was basically to get a very complex desktop application into the cloud by getting the C++ windows desktop code to run on cloud servers. In short it worked, but not very well and performance was bad and functionality was subpar due to technical limitations The idea was that this 3rd party legacy company would own the business logic and we would make it cloud/web/iOS/Android capable and give it a usability makeover to make it so you don't need a PhD to use. We had it running on windows cloud servers for a long time and spent A LOT of time getting the code portable on linux Most of the tech guys thought we should try to cut off 3rd party and just roll our own solution for business logic (might have actually been cheaper, but longer time horizon). But lead executive refused, then lead backend dev left which trigger an avalanche of people leaving, first lead devops and lead frontend, then me. Product got cancelled