I am watching Season 3- Episode 5 of Halt and Catch Fire. The two startup co-founders are arguing about a software issue which requires a quick decision. Should we leverage the code already built by someone (a company they recently acquired) that processes credit card payment or should we build our own payment processing. The main founder is a hard core techie and she argues their code is in a different language and will not fit. The other cofounder, also an engineer but handles business, suggests it will take time to build it and in the mean time we are bleeding. Let’s put the band aid now by integrating the 3rd party code, and then we can figure out how to improve on it later. We need a band aid now to stop the bleeding.
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A Band Aid is better than bleeding
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I am watching Season 3- Episode 5 of Halt and Catch Fire. The two startup co-founders are arguing about a software issue which requires a quick decision. Should we leverage the code already built by someone (a company they recently acquired) that processes credit card payment or should we build our own payment processing. The main founder is a hard core techie and she argues their code is in a different language and will not fit. The other cofounder, also an engineer but handles business, suggests it will take time to build it and in the mean time we are bleeding. Let’s put the band aid now by integrating the 3rd party code, and then we can figure out how to improve on it later. We need a band aid now to stop the bleeding.