On: How High-Flying Zenefits Fell to Earth

[brianwawok]

New around here?

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

[ceejayoz → brianwawok]

PG isn't saying "do stuff that won't ever be possible to scale" in that, though.

[brianwawok → ceejayoz]

Sure. But if the other providers don't have an API, it may take hiring a bunch of fax machine runners for a few years. Doesn't mean that was the end game plan... especially if they could automate as much of the fax machine running as possible.