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There is now enough tech information (videos, stories on scaling & stack etc etc) freely available online that there should be no excuse for getting the tech foundations wrong. Unless of course the head of the fish isn't tech savvy running a tech company then you have a classic technology issue I have seen too often.

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Bingo, the information was out there but the execs running the show didn't listen. A mentor with gravitas and a track record would likely have talked sense into them. This was 8 years ago though, so many more stories are accessible these days.

Unless that mentor was on the board it would still be hard to change a fixed mindset. But then again times have changed in the last 8 years.

Influencing people is a hard game. You can only do so much and the rest is inception. That's why you want the right people with the right skill-set driving the ship to avoid it grounding.

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