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by peeky 3447 days ago
Yeah, I worked for a startup that grew large quickly through a drive to get innovations to market fast and fix bugs later, and what slowed us down was winning enough large contracts with enterprise companies and governments who wanted more and more red tape and documentation and guaranteed processes, and basically exported their risk-averse culture to us.

We worked around this by having separate release channels, one for our enterprisey customers who opposed all change, and one for our customers who just wanted the coolest things first and were willing to accept some rough edges and lack of documentation.

That doesn't work if _all_ your customers are risk-averse, of course.