[anomaloustho]

I think another angle that often gets overlooked is that building out these tools is a competitive edge and valuation multiplier.

Harkening back to Paul Graham’s “Beating the Averages” talk about Lisp - they’ve solved problems that their competitors are also trying to solve, which could give an edge.

From the valuation perspective, for that same reason, this is now an asset that can be acquired as a technology on its own - whereas using MySQL adds no intrinsic value.