[capkutay]

I wonder if a recession or bear market environment will quickly make this type of advice – that worked well for the 2010s boom – obsolete in a harsher climate. Might be hard to scale your go-to-market by depending on startups who don't want 'enterprise-ready' features to spend money on your product.

[darkstar_16]

I think enterprise ready here refers more to scale than to features. People try and go the microservices, distributed DBs, hyper scale route way too early rather than focussing on their product, possibly building it as a monolith with simpler SQL DBs before going all out.

[bcrosby95]

I think the opposite. Prematurely building things you don't need costs $$$$, and in a tight funding environment you don't want to burn cash you don't need to.

Also compared to the 00s, the 2010s were a decade of gold plating and planning for scales you don't need.

[yen223]

That already happened. A large part of why Fast collapsed so fast was their overly-high infrastructure and engineering spend