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"Doesn't matter" is perhaps too bold. 'Misprioritized' better describes what I've seen. Sometimes partners have trouble seeing what's more important than something else, either because of communication issues with people below them, or because they get an idea they just can't shake.

The sign that I saw most prominently was operational instability. The application would have performance and sometimes uptime issues; these issues were predictable but time and effort was spent on things other than beefing up infrastructure to make that happen.

When moving off of GMail takes higher precedence than creating an Highly Available web server setup, you know that's a sign that things aren't prioritized well.




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