Varanasi: 90-day project timelines are artificial constructs tied to quarterly cycles
Anil Varanasi · Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO) · Dec 10, 2025 · at 1:08:33
Meter CEO Anil Varanasi challenges the default practice in tech companies of estimating that projects will take exactly 90 days or one quarter.
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“I think with smart people, if you ask this question, you say, how is it that every problem that could be a sales problem, that could be an engineering problem or an operations problem, that could be a design problem. They can be exactly solved in 90 days, but it can't be that everything is solved in this exact thing. It happens to be on a Georgian calendar that happens to be exactly quarterly that has to correlate with how stock market does it. It can't be that that's the right formula.”
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