When I've done that, people get defensive - if you're doing cool shit, you'd say so. When you're doing something simple you say something that sounds grandiose and enterprisey - we're doing "Full stack adaptive delivery" because you're worried people will realise that "you upload media to us, and can use our system to convert it if you want, and then we serve it via Akamai" will make people think that about 2/3 of your offering is rather pointless, and you could probably get the last 1/3 direct from Akamai for cheaper.
I feel bad shitting on a startup, but reading their docs I'm struggling to see what value they add beyond abstracting S3 and Akamai.
It looks like you can allow admin or users to easily upload files to an S3 bucket that you don't have to manage, and then serve them via Akamai without configuring it.
I guess there's a value add there if you don't have a person on board who can configure S3 and Akamai.
As the person below said, a lot of these people have answers for pretty much everything. I'm the person you're responding to and it pretty much always goes like this:
"Arent there other companies working on fraud on the blockchain? How are you different?"
"Our team is amazing and is made up of myself and my founder who have 3-4 years of experience and need to fill it with 8+ year experienced engineers because before then no one is really useful here."
Me: "..."
OR
"Do we really need another machine learning solution to classify documents? What is different from you and your competitors?"
"Well, we think everyone else is doing it wrong and that we've found the perfect solution."
"What is that?"
"Myself and my cofounder are far smarter than any of our competitors".
OR
"How do you talk to candidates about salary?"
"Well, we don't give any actual numbers, but we share our compensation philosophy doc, which ive linked here".
"Right, but can you afford these people? why do you expect them to take a huge pay cut to make you a millionaire?"
"The right person will have faith"
There's always an answer that feels like it was fed to them by a VC who knows it won't really work, but is just hoping and praying.
