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I agree with you. Looks like poor engineering leadership. Guess its one of the disadvantages when you are not based in the Silicon Valley...you simply don't ha
by rock_hard 12y ago
I agree with you. Looks like poor engineering leadership.
Guess its one of the disadvantages when you are not based in the Silicon Valley...you simply don't have access to 1st class talent that has done the same task at 2 other high growth startups before.
- alexcason 12y agoThis is what arrogance looks like folks.
- amberakselrad 12y agoalso what inexperience looks like :)
- phillmv 12y agoThere are network effects regarding the portion of outliers that SV captures, but if we're talking about experience alone then I'm skeptical of your claims given how much of SV is driven by freshly minted CS grads.
- rock_hard 12y agoWhere else in the world can you hire the guys who solved exactly the same problem (Monolithic Rails Stack) at companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Zendesk, etc.?
- dmur 12y agoYou're making a big assumption, which is that all those good engineers love to live in Silicon Valley and want nothing more than to stay in the area their entire lives. For each one of the engineers who feel that way, there's someone who worked here for awhile but now dislikes the area for one reason or another. Enticing good people to spend a few years in Berlin working for a company like Soundcloud might be easier than you think.
- rock_hard 12y agoI know a lot of top engineers here and non of them would ever consider leaving before retirement or becoming rich. And in both cases they would not start working for a startup in Berlin or any other place. If they leave then for southern france, a cow ranch in the mid-west or Bali.
- edwinnathaniel 12y agoI don't see them in Bali.
- edwinnathaniel 12y agoThe disadvantage here is money and VC. Where else you can burn money and not making profits in the name of engineering efforts?
- amberakselrad 12y agoI don't get it. Rails monolith is great for product proof-of-concept. Iterative refactoring and incremental change towards an architecture you see working for similar companies is also really sensible. What would you do differently if you had heaps of money and VC?
- edwinnathaniel 12y agoI'm replying to the parent disagreeing with him. I definitely agree with iterative refactoring and incremental changes that SoundCloud did. If SoundCloud has tons of money that can provide a long-term runaway, they can do major refactor or re-write. i.e.: if competition _AND_ money are not the issue, why not?