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If you go through all this trouble, you have essentially added another business line to your company. This may or may not be where a company wants to spend their resources. Rolling your own XYZ will always be cheaper than paying a 3rd party vendor, _if_ you have the time, experience, money, and competitive advantage to do it correctly, which are pretty big iffs.


Aye. It certainly seems like a commit to it or don't do it at all decision, half measures will be more trouble than they are worth.


Productizing every operation is critical to how Amazon became a $trillion company.




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