There is nothing you cannot ruin with dumb enough management.

that comes later

Market forces trump individual performance.

Not to say this way of working isn't good, but HuggingFace's success is not a great data point to validate the hypothesis.

it does demonstrate lack of fatal flaws i guess? and startups are all about lasting long enough til PMF is found

Step 1: Buy lottery ticket with correct numbers on it.

Step 2: Cash it in and make a lot of money.

This suggests the iterated optimum strategy is to just keep chasing new points trying to land that golden moment, though. If you think such points and moments are plentiful enough that you'll find them in your lifetime reliably (I do!).

> This suggests the iterated optimum strategy is to just keep chasing new points trying to land that golden moment, though.

Yup exactly. We call that venture capital

this is the most accurate answer unless you are AWS, Azure, or GCP. source: ex-AWS GTM