With four years of hindsight, the estimate of DBaaS and managed database hosting companies of being <10M revenue stood out at me. MongoDB Atlas hit $85M revenue in Q4 2020 (https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/03/10/mo...), which means that assuming RethinkDB's estimates were correct, the market they wrote off as too small was actually about to explode into something much larger.
That's not to say that they would have succeeded if they'd gone after that though; instead we might have a blog post about how they correctly predicted where the market would go and simply ran out of money before the market got there.
That's not to say that they would have succeeded if they'd gone after that though; instead we might have a blog post about how they correctly predicted where the market would go and simply ran out of money before the market got there.