Just because you start this lean doesn’t mean you should stay that way. Perhaps he’s now spending too much time managing his stack and not enough time on product development, customer service, a/o growth.

In other words, what gets you to $10k MRR isn’t the same thing(s) for 2x, 5x, or 10x that.

One can only assume the funding was needed to be able to afford K8s and postgres? /s