> I enjoyed the presentation very much, until > "Engineers 3-10x more productive" > Citation needed. Oh, it's a perfectly plausible number. It increases the pr

> I enjoyed the presentation very much, until > "Engineers 3-10x more productive" > Citation needed. Oh, it's a perfectly plausible number. It increases the productivity of each developer by a factor of 3 to 10 and also increases the maintenance costs by 3^n_engineers or 10^n_engineers. This seems to be the tradeoff that startups make.