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Because Si Valley startups love to buy services from their VCs' portfolio companies without regard to their cost?
by dboreham 3y ago
Because Si Valley startups love to buy services from their VCs' portfolio companies without regard to their cost?
- leetrout 3y agoIt truly is interesting how much this happens. I felt pressure to use an investor's staffing company at previous jobs.
- pmorelli 3y agoThere's some of that, but even rolling your own on oss software, your infra (compute, storage, network) can start to balloon really rapidly. TBF, I think this is more of scale problem for medium to larger traffic companies than startups. I've seen this become especially acute when you're transition from a small or medium company and have started to hit those growth curves, and you get socked with these surprise bills. Something that was a tiny line item suddenly becomes... bad.