> We were constantly faced with product leaders (VPs of Product, CPOs, PMs, etc.) who were very excited about adding Cord to their existing product. They saw the value unambiguously. And then we’d get to the dev team and face a stonewall of NIH syndrome alongside a clear preference for building it all themselves, even when that meant shipping a vastly less-useful product to their end users.
From the other side, this looks like "management signed up for some flashy product based on marketing, but it turned out to be useless". Not recognising that seems like a substantial blind spot.
It would be interesting to hear from anyone who evaluated Cord and decided not to use it. I wonder if the risk that the company might fold entered into the decision.
Still, excellent of them to have open-sourced it; it superficially looks like they've put a lot of effort into making it usable.
From the other side, this looks like "management signed up for some flashy product based on marketing, but it turned out to be useless". Not recognising that seems like a substantial blind spot.
It would be interesting to hear from anyone who evaluated Cord and decided not to use it. I wonder if the risk that the company might fold entered into the decision.
Still, excellent of them to have open-sourced it; it superficially looks like they've put a lot of effort into making it usable.