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FWIW, the founder of HashiCorp created Vangrant when they are in college. Why did Terraform end up being the dominant product? Product-market fit. That’s not j
by diceduckmonk 3y ago
FWIW, the founder of HashiCorp created Vangrant when they are in college.
Why did Terraform end up being the dominant product? Product-market fit. That’s not just engineering, but bringing to market a product at the time when people need and understand it. This includes marketing and educating. Also, Terraform has an ecosystem of prebuilt providers. NPM as a package manager is not as well designed as other systems, but it’s arguably been the most successful. While the internal prop tech you mentioned may be more advanced, it’s not obvious you had the right product people with vision to build out that ecosystem. Most managers and product people at large companies aren’t tech savvy beyond buzzwords