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It's incredibly difficult for a mature software business to justify infrastructure and tooling investments. This is why we think that startups are a haven for m
by lumost 3y ago
It's incredibly difficult for a mature software business to justify infrastructure and tooling investments. This is why we think that startups are a haven for modern tooling and the largest legacy firms are ... well ... difficult.
The last 15 years possibly broke this rule by virtue of low interest rates, enabling the justification of large internal teams focused on modernization efforts which sometimes went as far as moving the state of computing forward.
I wouldn't be surprised to see legacy enterprises return to form now that interest rates are 7%
- cynicalsecurity 3y agoOn premises hardware can hardly be called legacy. Clouds are way too expensive for startups; they are a milking machine for the big corpo.
- lumost 3y agoStartups are typically capex constrained, at least until series C. Clouds are favorable to capex constraints. Having personally tried to be cheaper than the cloud in 2013 through large hardware buys, negotiated contracts etc. I found that the roi relative to a progressively discounting cloud weren’t there.