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Competing in the Cloud on Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi

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The Problem With Hyper Optimisation

i think that c os run into as they hyper optimise the business theyrein. And if you're optimizing that, you kind of the enemy of that is a new thing. You dilute focus, you dilute your talent m and everything else. So it's hard to get the hump on that. i likes, i te'll have 20 people on the existing product a and then there's something else that they need to do,. but they can't even take one person and put hem on that. I'm always like, well, look, the the difference 19 and 20 people on tha set off for engineering project. It won't actually hurt the business. But just carve out

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