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I'd guess staffing issues, since my bookkeeper would change every month. I'm still not sure how they couldn't afford to hire better staff, though. You're right that it could be something nefarious.

Where did you move to?




> I'm still not sure how they couldn't afford to hire better staff,

Because they never figured out how to automate enough of the process to scale revenue up without scaling expenses.

All the investments in these VC funded companies is a bet that the companies will develop automation that will allow them to not hire staff, period (relative to the growth in customers).


Which companies have actually succeeded at becoming a profitable and break-even human-less $ESTABLISHED_INDUSTRY?


Ah sorry to hear you were caught up in this.

Cronitor uses pilot. It was a little crazy at first but the last year+ feels like they have stabilized operations.




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