I never give a definite answer before I'm at least somewhat familiar with the problem at hand and their deadlines - I'm not able to tell from this article alone

I never give a definite answer before I'm at least somewhat familiar with the problem at hand and their deadlines - I'm not able to tell from this article alone if the author did that. Anyway this approach is profitable but comes with two downsides: -You risk getting stuck with a project that was much larger than you anticipated. -Eventually you find that your business is not what you originally envisioned. I used to work for a company that wanted to get into the Big Data space back when that was a fashionable buzzword. I went to an interview there a couple of years after parting ways only to discover that while they still heavily advertised big data, deep learning and whatnot, their main money maker was some pretty standard DevOps.