> We’ve put a lot of work and resources into growing the platform and maturing our engineering organization. But that work has lagged growth.
I fundamentally don't understand why people are in such a big hurry to get 'famous'. I've worked a couple of places where the marketing side was working as hard as they could to make sure that our heads were on fire at all possible moments. At one job I had a (very, very junior) manager come up to me and say great news we landed <big customer> and my immediate reply was, "fuck me". We were already running to stay upright and now we're about to have twice as much scrutiny. Wonderful.
If you push hard enough, eventually everyone looks like an idiot. The number of humans for whom that is not true could fit into a book. Both alive and deceased. They most definitely do not work for the companies I've described, at least not enough of them so you'd notice.
I fundamentally don't understand why people are in such a big hurry to get 'famous'. I've worked a couple of places where the marketing side was working as hard as they could to make sure that our heads were on fire at all possible moments. At one job I had a (very, very junior) manager come up to me and say great news we landed <big customer> and my immediate reply was, "fuck me". We were already running to stay upright and now we're about to have twice as much scrutiny. Wonderful.
If you push hard enough, eventually everyone looks like an idiot. The number of humans for whom that is not true could fit into a book. Both alive and deceased. They most definitely do not work for the companies I've described, at least not enough of them so you'd notice.