[twodave]

Anyone else a bit skeptical of the “time to having a live product” timeline of many of these companies? Maybe I’m wrong, but e.g. there’s no way Gusto produced a working managed payroll product in a month. There must have been either been significant pieces of their product that were pre-existing or else they built an interface to someone else’s product.

[lennysan]

Good call, I’m going to dig into this further.

[mousetree]

Kent Beck worked at Gusto. He was a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. Therefore MVP in 1 month. /s

[twodave]

I love me some Kent Beck, and I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but I doubt he was interviewed for this article. 1 month for that kind of a product is short enough that it’s either a clerical error or someone is BSing big time.