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by sys_64738 1316 days ago
When is startup mode you can get away with anything. Trying to stabilize the business to sustain it requires spending money on non-engineering parts of the business. Spending on those areas are what often dooms the company to bloat. A lot of these companies also try to spin up projects to spend capital on the "next best thing". But they don't realize that the only reason they exist is purely down to luck and not any type of smarts from the founders. But the founders generally don't realize they had dumb luck.

You see this with Google and Facebook where their main product was being the one which got momentum at that time and everything else they try to invent is pure trash. The only growth FB has had is through acquisitions and then it's a scattergun approach. These companies are filled with waste.