If nothing else, this interview shows that massive venture funding and hiring bonanzas are not the only way to build a successful company. I feel like that message gets lost too often in the startup sphere.
No but it's much harder to compete when your competitors are fueled by nearly unlimited VC money. They can pay better compensation, hire more people, have lower prices and so on.
The combo of more and better people is really a one two punch of being well funded.
These are noteworthy articles because of how rare it is - akin to articles of Silicon Valley titans that didn't complete college. We point to their experience as novelty, not as practical advice to ourselves or others.
Yeah 20 years ago shortly after .com blowup. Try that today and it will be more difficult for many reasons, namely there now exist VCs that will look to fund your competitors. There would be no Jira. There would be some better product made by amazon that everyone is using.
I went from the highest-high at “no jira” to the lowest low at “product made by Amazon”