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/