Here's a story that every founder needs to hear, because it reveals something fundamental about markets, competition, and the hidden costs of being first. https://share.transistor.fm/s/22175561 In the world of Python programming, there's been a tool called pip that has dominated package installation for years. pip has been the de facto way to install Python packages … Continue reading The Hidden Cost of Being First
Category: Infrastructure
What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
If Facebook can survive a 6-hour outage, so can you. Let's talk about unexpected downtime, which is often a direct consequence of dependency risk. Even Facebook experiences platform dependency risk. In fact, their attempt to avoid platform dependency risk introduced a new dependency, which caused this fail cascade to happen. Because Facebook truly wants to … Continue reading What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis
I was working on a side project this week, and I ran into an all-too-familiar pattern: the more I thought about the technical requirements for this project, the bigger it grew in my mind. I only want to build this for myself to see if I could be Customer Zero. But it derailed quickly. What … Continue reading Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis
Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business
As technical founders, we're supposed to choose the technology that works best for us and our business. But we often let the cargo-culting around the newest, hottest tech stack get to us. Many technical founders see a new startup as an opportunity to figure out a modern tech stack. That is a dangerous move. Not … Continue reading Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business