[hprotagonist]

> For every wonderful experience with a TM there were 10+ engineers who we screened out.

maybe (and i know that this is an outré thing to say these days) that was the point.

[meowface]

I think it probably was the point, but I'm guessing the primary issue with it was that it turned out to be harder to profit with that strategy.

To use a rough biological analogy, I think it's generally a lot easier to have a big, rapidly growing company if you take an r-selection rather than a K-selection approach.