Re:Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore
by vidarh on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:45AM
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This, I find, is one of the hardest things about hiring developers for a startup. Because on one hand you want people who knows how to do things right.
On the other hand, you want people who are prepared to accept that decisions that are insane in a stable business can be very much rational in a business where the cost of cash to fund large engineering changes is dropping at a crazy rate if you're successful, and doesn't matter if you're not (because you'll never get to it).
Of course it's good to avoid completely pointless mistakes. But it often matters far more to deliver.
On the other hand, you want people who are prepared to accept that decisions that are insane in a stable business can be very much rational in a business where the cost of cash to fund large engineering changes is dropping at a crazy rate if you're successful, and doesn't matter if you're not (because you'll never get to it).
Of course it's good to avoid completely pointless mistakes. But it often matters far more to deliver.