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veeralpatel979 on Feb 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack

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.

kortilla on Feb 13, 2020 [–]

Hard to say. Their bad choices definitely didn’t stop them from shipping quickly but it didn’t necessarily help.

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