Two people talk through the hard choice of turning down client work. They weigh the money against focus, the temptation of interesting problems, and what it costs to say no when you don't have the staff to handle it.
And I think one of the things you'll see over time is that you have to learn to say no. Clients will come to you with an exciting project, but it kind of derails you a bit off of the path that you were focused on. And you know you could do it, but you'll need to add a few extra people. You need to kind of take people off what they were doing. And sometimes then you have to say, okay, this project, while it would bring in good money, Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. may not be the right one for us. And then we have to say no. And it's hard because then you wonder, right, did I do the right thing here?
Because yeah, of course you want to get revenue in, but— And sometimes it's a really interesting problem to solve, and we're like, I'm a sucker for an interesting problem to solve. And so it's so hard for us to, to say no to those things as just inquisitive people too, like, or it would be really fun to work on.
