Start-up-and-down
summary
A startup built an online psychotherapy platform initially as a managed-services prototype, scaled during COVID to 100 therapists and thousands of users without problems. After receiving millions in investment and forcibly acquiring an external Kubernetes cluster managed with Helm, the migration consumed time, money and engineering capacity, draining runway; concrete numbers, architecture details and costs are presented to explain why a simpler-stack competitor won further funding and the product moved into maintenance mode.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Online therapy platform
- 3:55Accelerator journey
- 5:21COVID opportunity
- 8:11Investment and acquisition
- 11:27Enterprise architecture
- 14:16Competition and loss
- 16:21Key lessons
- 20:52Conclusion
- 21:13Q&A
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