[scrubs]

Oh c'mon. This is circa 202x not 1960. Hind sight of what? If you can't understand 13% utilization of servers for the bills you're paying or indexing queries ... what did you expect? To be taken seriously? Please ... they had to hire an outsider to point out the stunningly obvious.

[kayo_20211030]

I don't get the sense that these companies hired an outsider to perform a post-mortem. All I got from the reddit post was that some johnnie took it on himself to trawl through the repos of failed startups, came up with some laughably simple weaknesses, and published a post to demonstrate how clever he was and how stupid they were. It reeks of glib, self-satisfaction. At no point was a business case examined, or business management, or market size, or burn-rate, or cashflows, or anything else that's likely to signal imminent or eventual demise more clearly than a missing index. The absolute dollars weren't even clear. 13% utilization on a total bill of $100 has a different level of materiality than if the total bill was $100,000. The former is a bit loose, but probably not fatal. Get the business right then get the tech right. Bad business plus great tech is probably still a dead business.