It’s all relative: I’ve never worked on a team that beat RenTech in the market. I’ve worked on a team that in certain verticals kicked Google’s ass up between their ears on advertising. Is that a “high-performing” team?

The thing with these fluffy observational posts is that it’s rarely if ever concrete: here’s the Goliath to our David, here’s the advantages we leveraged to get the drop on the better-resourced, ostensibly smarter competitor, here’s how we opened the door with the slender bit of the wedge, and this is how we maintained cohesion and momentum to ram it right up Goliath’s ass.

Anything short of that is fucking whiffle-ball and is a waste of pixels on HN’s front page.

Let’s hear the actual story about how your scrappy and creative and cohesive group left the big enemy with a broken jaw. Otherwise, yawn.