To be fair the bad choices are what allowed them to ship quickly, get to product-market fit, and get to the point where the bad choices started to hurt them.
Most startups never see the effects of their bad (or good) choices because they go out of business.
Hard to say. Their bad choices definitely didn’t stop them from shipping quickly but it didn’t necessarily help.
Slack, Facebook? Bad choice? I think they're counting more cash than a rust nerd.
> Bad choices always bite you at some point.
Good choices too, for that matter. They tend to live until they turn into bad ones.