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Well in defense of that - it's easy to underestimate the value of a good, creative, productive workspace.

Also very easy to overestimate it, especially when you are targeting a low value niche like a consumer web subscription.

See also: Their $35k/month (Over $5/paying customer!) AWS bill, when they probably could have done the non-sexy startup thing and just leased a couple of beefy VPS servers for a fraction of that.

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