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Re:Zendesk to be acquired by CoastalCoder on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:22AM (#32179768)
That's a really interesting observation. I never thought of tech stack as a possible predictor of profitability.

Do you know of any larger studies on that?

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Re:Zendesk to be acquired by derivagral on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:03AM (#32180233)
Paul Graham wrote this[0] back in the day about tech stacks. I think this is still kind of true, but there's many more people across many stacks today that can work around some of the shortcomings. I guess it would still be important-ish at a small startup, but you still have to hire for it. There's much more JS/python/java/etc these days, so you have to fight that tide while you grow.

Profitability also may correlate differently; smaller places usually focus on growth instead, right?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

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