I think it comes down to if your company has strong enough technical leadership to retain an ocaml engineering team. If there is dissonance between how engineer

I think it comes down to if your company has strong enough technical leadership to retain an ocaml engineering team. If there is dissonance between how engineering thinks about the business and how the leadership thinks about the business, you'll not reap the benefits of ocaml and the team will leave. In practice I think this means the founding team has to have an ocaml expert for ocaml to work (or any other not-mainstream tech choice). You can't just hire one and hope for the best.