I think it's early to tell. But generally tariffs = more uncertainty = tighter capital. If a startup raised high before, it might have to do a down round in the future unless growth is real.
This looks great. I'm usually very much a DIY type of person when it comes to investing because of the typical fees mentioned, but excited to try this out!
One of the recurrent topics is integration with spreadsheets done by non-developers.
Imagine a spreadsheet built by the finance department of an institution. It is also maintained by them. The developer team might want to integrate this tool in their workflow. With IronCalc the can add units test or compute it a thousand times, one for each user.
I don't think developers would choose IronCalc to do any actual development. They will be forced to by other parts of their tool chain being spreadsheets.
Another way would be developers wanting to build spreadsheets with some extensions for a company or organization. Imagine needing a spreadsheet that has a built in SAT solver (like https://github.com/shnarazk/splr). That would be easily built in IronCalc.
This was particularly bad at Meta pre-efficiency push Zuck. There was huge bloat that was counterproductive. Empire builders were incentivized by promotions based on the size of their orgs.
One thing the article didn't mention is how crucial it is for a team to have focus and to ruthlessly prioritize. It's easier for bigger teams to fall into the trap of doing "busy work" and people fighting for scope on their performance reviews. This is the worst possible outcome for company and employee where you have work driven by optics vs value.
I quit meta in large part for this reason, right before the push. My friends who stayed said the workload was hell, but I wonder if I would have experienced less manager / director incompetence.
P Thiel, in 0-1 which I just started, says if you find yourself in an org where people spend more time building artifacts of showing progress, than progressing something, quit.
