Thomas Bock

Opinion

February 19, 2024

10 tech stack mistakes to avoid as you scale

Troubleshooting your tech stack on the fly can be a death sentence. There is a big difference between being able to iterate and winging it

Thomas Bock

6 min read

“If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your first product, you’ve launched too late,” said LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman in 2009. While Silicon Valley is full of stock phrases about how to successfully grow a company, Hoffman gets to the heart of one of the entrepreneurial dilemmas — the growth versus product conundrum.

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Thomas Bock

Thomas Bock, CTO and COO of FERNRIDE.

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