Danjou: Extreme time and capital constraints prevent product over-engineering
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Julien Danjou, CEO of Mergify, reflects on how working with minimal capital and spare time forced disciplined prioritization when launching the company.
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“You know that both money and time are very constrained. So you have to focus on the right thing, which as an engineer, you see a lot of stories of people trying to build products and, you know, never launching and adding more and more features because you're like, Yeah. That new feature will bring new customers and you never do anything. Whereas where you were in the first few years we were in the mindset that would be like, we have no time and no money. So like we have two hours of spare time this week. What do we do? What can we do with only two hours and basically zero dollar. So you think in a different way, which I think helped us a lot over the years to grow in a way where You don't have a lot of resources, but you do a lot of things.”
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