In 2014 Xero was experiencing exponential customer growth. But they were about to hit a wall.

Unless they did something drastic, and soon, they would be unable to continue to scale their platform to handle new customers. 

This episode tells of what happened when the team realised the complexity of the migration they were undertaking and how they pulled the project back onto the tracks

In 2014 Xero was experiencing exponential customer growth. But they were about to hit a wall.

Unless they did something drastic, and soon, they would be unable to continue to scale their platform to handle new customers. 

This episode tells the story of probably the largest cloud migration undertaken by a SaaS company in NZ.

Startups are an exercise in compromise due to scarce time and money. This episode talks about some of the tradeoffs that Vend made on its way to acquisition

Vend started off in 2010 and by 2013 they were bringing awesome sauce and chuck taylors to the tech scene in Auckland. Vend sprang back into the collective tech community attentions last year by being acquired for 350M USD by Lightspeed. 

The Stables vs Volatiles article Nick mentioned in this episode is available here: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/stables-and-volatiles/