Interview: Sourcegraph Founder/CEO Slack Quinn
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Company recounts several projects from 2021 that were plausible but not aligned with top priorities and would not be greenlit today, yet had users and teams invested in them. Leadership enforces reprioritization by cutting or reallocating work, creating a deliberate shock to the system because incremental headcount growth no longer solves tradeoffs. Communication needed to be clearer; the abrupt shift toward AI capabilities mostly succeeds operationally but leaves morale and handoff problems that require more upfront transparency.
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