I don't understand the meaning of "crack the egg with a sledgehammer." I would think it means "to use way more force than is necessary," but the context is more along the lines of "get the problem solved at all costs."
I also followed the link to the other article where that phrase is used[1], and found something a bit concerning: "Nawaf moved the entire engineering team over to work on it. He called them all in to work nights and weekends until it was fixed, [...] Nawaf saved our bacon."
Umm, what about those engineers? I'll give the benefit of the doubt that they were rewarded appropriately, but the wording here seems to almost deliberately stoke the developers vs. management flames, especially coming from a VC...
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I don't understand the meaning of "crack the egg with a sledgehammer." I would think it means "to use way more force than is necessary," but the context is more along the lines of "get the problem solved at all costs."
I also followed the link to the other article where that phrase is used[1], and found something a bit concerning: "Nawaf moved the entire engineering team over to work on it. He called them all in to work nights and weekends until it was fixed, [...] Nawaf saved our bacon."
Umm, what about those engineers? I'll give the benefit of the doubt that they were rewarded appropriately, but the wording here seems to almost deliberately stoke the developers vs. management flames, especially coming from a VC...
[1] http://scott.a16z.com/2014/02/03/harvey-keitel-ceo/