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I don't think I have joined a startup that pays less than 20k/month to AWS or any cloud in almost a decade. Biggest recent ones were ~200k and ~100k that we ma

by whstl 1y ago

I don't think I have joined a startup that pays less than 20k/month to AWS or any cloud in almost a decade. Biggest recent ones were ~200k and ~100k that we managed to lower to ~80k with a couple months of work (but it went back up again after I left). I fondly remember lowering our Heroku bill from 5k to 2k back in 2016 after a day of work. Management was ecstatic.

grebc 1y ago
The only real startup I’ve had the privy of looking into financials had 5 figure AWS bills and literally 5 customers. Single digit customers. And the product was sending SMS’s. Startups are clown shows for burning OPM.