[numpad0]

Is the configuration stupid, or, is it somehow imperative that work is distributed over 200 local engineers + over 70MB of externalities?

[nikanj]

When a VC gives you a giant boatload of money, they insist you "scale up" the company overnight. So you go on a massive hiring spree, and get triple-digit team of engineers before having any market traction.

And they're tasked with building a product that can handle Google-levels of demand, though they currently only have two customers, neither of them paying.

It indeed is imperative, but not for technical reasons.

[cosmodisk]

And then when the stock market drops by .1%, you lay off 30% of the workforce because that's what's needed for its survival.

[rafale]

I would take the money then do none of that. And now I got a 5 years runway, enough time to build a product people like and use, and by then the investors won't be angry anymore.

[pharmakom]

You would never get the money with this plan.

[10000truths]

If the money comes with a stipulation that I have to spend it all in such a way that I screw myself and my company over, then I don’t want the money.

[numpad0]

And is it because those strawman VCs are all stupid, or, is it somehow ...

[thirtyfivecent]

They do that so you're screwed later on without them when that first bit of money starts to run out and boom they own your company