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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 10:28 AM1 replyview on HN

> It's related to funding. I mean it's always money, right?

This sounds more like there is money in the room than it’s about the money. None of the decision makers personally profited from saying go. It was much more of a prestige thing.


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LorenPechteltoday at 12:02 AM

Challenger: Saying don't go would probably have cost them their jobs.

Columbia: It had previously barely survived foam damage. They figured out where the offending foam had come from and fixed that part--but only that part.