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Would love a breakdown of the AWS cost.
[1] https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/...
Amazing. This one piece is simply eye opening - https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/... And here it is - the side effects of the talent war in full effect: HR - $1,374,695.06 - or 52% of total costs And the real winners of the whole thing (the pick axe industry): AWS - $394,588.35 - or 14% of total costs
Amazing. This one piece is simply eye opening - https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/... And here it is - the side effects of the talent war in full effect: HR - $1,374,695.06 - or 52% of total costs And the real winners of the whole thing (the pick axe industry): AWS - $394,588.35 - or 14% of total costs
Why would it be unusual for the majority of costs to be salaries for a company that sells services and develops products? This has nothing to do with the "talent war." That's just the way things work. What else would they be spending money on?
> AWS - $394,588.35 - or 14% of total costs
How much higher would that number have been had Everpix built out their own infrastructure?
Could Everpix have been run by a very small team at the end, rather than shut down? It looks like it was near adding a net 1,000 subscribers per month. Also, wouldn't it have been possible - with the understood pain points - to substantially reduce costs by moving off of AWS? Trading the ease of AWS for the critical cash for operations.
Thank you for this. Reading the VC letters was just so amazingly refreshing I can't begin to tell you. I love how they said "no" in almost all the same ways. I'd really like to know the two that were so standup, that they wouldn't fund a competitor or someone who could, eventually, be a competitor. In all honesty, those are the types of funds you want backing you. They've bought your vision and they're not going to d…
The minute I get the opportunity to put my money my mouth is, I will invest solely in lifestyle businesses: one to two guys/gals wanting to build a profitable business with a yearly dividend, one where if the team makes $500,000/year we are all extremely happy.
Amazing. This one piece is simply eye opening - https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/... And here it is - the side effects of the talent war in full effect: HR - $1,374,695.06 - or 52% of total costs And the real winners of the whole thing (the pick axe industry): AWS - $394,588.35 - or 14% of total costs
> HR - $1,374,695.06 - or 52% of total costs Why would it be unusual for the majority of costs to be salaries for a company that sells services and develops products? This has nothing to do with the "talent war." That's just the way things work. What else would they be spending money on? > AWS - $394,588.35 - or 14% of total costs How much higher would that number have been had Everpix built out their own infrastruct…
> company that sells services and develops products
Here is my criticism now - not all products and services are equal, yet the costs to develop them (in SV) are. FB/Google/etc.'s high revenues dictate that their products and services constitute a developer that costs $foo - they set the market rates. Talented developers are fungible, but their salaries are not - thus the disconnect.
> How much higher would that number have been had Everpix built out their own infrastructure?
I don't have the answer to that question, and probably very few people do. There are two points to be addressed there - (1) could they save money by building their own? mature companies deal with that question all of the time (2) this is a real life indication of how much a software services money can make on one client by "selling pick axes in a gold rush" - thereby singalling a reinforcement to that sentiment.
*(note - I'm in SV)
I'm founder @ Trovebox and recently posted this which anyone doing a subscription consumer photo service should read.
"Hello 2014, Goodbye Consumer Photo Service" - https://medium.com/p/b1234eaf75b