That reason also includes SOC2, FedRAMP, data at rest jurisdiction, availability zones etc. And if large enough you can negotiate the standard pricing.
Building backends is easy. It is sort of weird. In 2003 no one would bat an eyelid at building an entire app and chucking it on a server. I guess front-end complexity had made that a specialism so with all that dev energy drained they have no time for the backend. The backend is substantial easier though!
These high value startups timed well to capture the vibe coding (was known as builidng an MVP before), front end culture and sheer volume of internet use and developers.
Right, wait till all other countries tariff US movies. Again it is another US thing is more expensive for the average human on Earth scenario. Good luck with that.
So he went on to hire lucky people. They all left after a year. 6 had won the lottery, 10 had got rich betting on crypto and the other 12 had set up a business on the side and make more money from that.
He had learned his lesson: next time he would discard the other half of the applicant pile.
Don't launch (yet). Instead, ask those users who gave you info for some feedback on your product. Then you have launched without it being a launch.
Launching is in the eye of the beholder. If you launch to 10k people that is 10k 1 person launches. That's all. A single 1 person launch is the same in many ways.