Serverless Startup with Yan Cui

Software Engineering Daily

• Episode: Serverless Startup with Yan Cui
• Website: Software Engineering Daily
• Feed URL: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:57:56
• Published: 2017-08-04 11:00

After raising $18 million, social networking startup Yubl made a series of costly mistakes. Yubl hired an army of expensive contractors to build out its iOS and Android apps. Drama at the executive level hurt morale for the full-time employees. Most problematic, the company was bleeding cash due to a massive over-investment in cloud services. This was the environment in which Yan Cui joined Yubl. The startup did have traction.

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