Hard to say. Ruby really did let us move and ship products insanely fast, without having to sink precious engineering time into boilerplate and standard librar

Hard to say. Ruby really did let us move and ship products insanely fast, without having to sink precious engineering time into boilerplate and standard libraries. Most startups fail, and it's often because they couldn't move fast enough. So I don't think it was a bad choice at the time. We were able to do the rewrite once we had grown up a bit, gotten acquired, hired more engineers, and had a proven business model that was worth investing in.