I've build a couple of startups and sold out, worked for a couple of well known ones as early employees and now reside in an architecture position. This magical free time never appears, particularly when your business is suddenly return focused after your capital comes in. The low capital cost of the services your are integrating typically is used as a justification to utilise them more.
Then a client comes along dangling a few million quid/dollars etc who wants it somewhere else for regulatory compliance or wants to self host it and you have to turn them away.
It's not about making your life easier in the short term, it's about building a solid business foundation and continuation plan and a good DR strategy. A lot of people don't consider this and crash and burn and it's not pretty.
Edit: your approach is known among my circles as the "Ferengi badass" approach.
Then a client comes along dangling a few million quid/dollars etc who wants it somewhere else for regulatory compliance or wants to self host it and you have to turn them away.
It's not about making your life easier in the short term, it's about building a solid business foundation and continuation plan and a good DR strategy. A lot of people don't consider this and crash and burn and it's not pretty.
Edit: your approach is known among my circles as the "Ferengi badass" approach.