This was a major gap waiting to be filled. After my experience with GH CodeSpaces, I've been wanting a system that simply provided the shell experience in the browser without the IDE. This should help I think.
Us tech people being tech people, we look at this as a systems design problem but no one seems to be considering what conditions lead to such massive demand for this show in particular. I can bet inadequate supply in general is a major cause, part of which is regulatory issues and red tape.
I never said theres a catch all meaning to difficult situations. Every one has to draw their own lines about it. I understand its in fashion to talk about RTO as a difficult situation and it certainly is for a large segment of employees but would it also be a difficult situation for a developer if they are asked to follow a coding style at work that does not conform to their own personal style?
Some might say yes, thats a difficult situation while others might say how stupid that is to make a situation out of that.
The point was, the difficulty levels can vary and employers would like to know where an employee stands so as to gauge fit with the ups-and-downs of a particular context of that particular organization.
A question in their minds is whether candidates have the tenacity to stick through ups and downs of a company. This happens very frequently and I guess the employers are trying to gauge whether people will up and leave the moment things get difficult.
it may merit some nuanced explanation when such a question comes up.
They started out with places to stay and now throw experiences into our faces on the home page.
Compare that to booking.com home page that has stuck to “place to stay” as the entry point for the user for ten years since I’ve been using them both. That consistency means a lot and ends up occupying a space in the user’s mind.
You are right and I am simply putting myself in the shoes of the late stage investors. Perhaps they have been sold a story the drives confidence in a 2X return. When the story doesn’t hold up, there isn’t much of a multiples buffer to prevent losing money.
This is the most under appreciated principle for building a business, the one that’s most easy to relax and the one that requires most amount of self discipline and self control for CEOs and founders.
Demand and supply is playing a big role in the valuations.
One could argue that absent a MnA ecosystem, investors only have a handful of opportunities to multiply their investment. It leads to simple handing-off to next round investors as the one and perhaps only opportunity to get returns on the funds.
Only recently has the ecosystem understood the potential for IPO in India as a potential for exit.