A short talk advising technology decision-makers to select tools with a multi-year outlook: because the tech landscape evolves rapidly, aim for at least a five-year runway (practically often closer to five than ten). The speaker emphasizes planning and vision when choosing long-lived tools for a tech stack.
The worst thing you can do is you can invest in a tool that you want to invest in for the next at least 10 years, and it's probably going to be five because of just the speed of evolution in the space and just the amount of new companies that are coming popping up all of a sudden. But you really want to at least have a good five year Runway. So it's really about what is that vision of where you want to see your planning.
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