This is a very interesting, very well written post. The part that stands out the most is:
> if you needed venture capital to produce a viable small-scale business, you didn't really have a viable small-scale business to begin with. Triplebyte's break-even status was an illusion, predicated on funding that would probably never have existed if that scale were the founders' only ambition.
I wonder if there's a way to build a viable business out of a product like FastTrack that does not depend on venture capital to get going?
> if you needed venture capital to produce a viable small-scale business, you didn't really have a viable small-scale business to begin with. Triplebyte's break-even status was an illusion, predicated on funding that would probably never have existed if that scale were the founders' only ambition.
I wonder if there's a way to build a viable business out of a product like FastTrack that does not depend on venture capital to get going?