> from a Snap survivor: ”So it’s frustrating; they expect us to still go out and win with these products, yet we have fewer resources.”
I don’t know what function this is it their manager is telling them, but this quote really reflects a bull market mentality that success is a function of resources applied without acknowledging the inefficiency of throwing money at a problem. People who want to be successful over the next 5 years really should be thinking in terms of how to operate efficiently and leverage what they do have. I think a lot of young VC-funded tech workers misunderstand how elastic resourcing actually can be in the software world, and how much past resourcing was speculative and incremental-not essential.
I don’t know what function this is it their manager is telling them, but this quote really reflects a bull market mentality that success is a function of resources applied without acknowledging the inefficiency of throwing money at a problem. People who want to be successful over the next 5 years really should be thinking in terms of how to operate efficiently and leverage what they do have. I think a lot of young VC-funded tech workers misunderstand how elastic resourcing actually can be in the software world, and how much past resourcing was speculative and incremental-not essential.