You can have bajilions of dollars. Those are not doing anything if you don’t have right people with right skills and mindset.
replyMy bet is they hire smart kids that think they know it all. But being smart and thinking you can figure out stuff as you go doesn’t work the same as having people who actually know what they are doing.
I'm sure if they hired the best of the best like you nothing would go wrong.
replyIt’s frighteningly common for startups to hire 501 of the best of the best, exactly one of those will be a systems/network engineer, the other 500 will be software engineers.
replyyes, unfortunately, i see this situation a lot around me too...
replyNah they wouldn’t be able to afford my salary ;)
replyThough they have solved the "how do we - and not the 5,000 other AI companies - stay on the front page of the news everyday" problem.
replyIt’s very much solvable, they just don’t care.
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