His analysis of starling reinforces an impression I got of Twitter devs from articles/discussions back when they were having lots of uptime/scaling issues. The

His analysis of starling reinforces an impression I got of Twitter devs from articles/discussions back when they were having lots of uptime/scaling issues. The impression was they weren't that experienced or all that good. It makes me curious how many early startups aren't composed of rockstar devs. How much (if at all) timing, luck, marketing matter more than dev ability at the beginning. I tending to think it's not nearly as important to have experienced rockstars from day 1. It's not until you get enough success to become famous and start attracting experienced rockstars that it becomes critical to recognize and hire them.