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I liken this story to the mortgage-backed securities mess/scandal/disaster. Read http://semyondukach.blogspot.com/2009/01/real-cause-of-finan... -- a link previously posted here on HN.

99.99% of the nights, this company could get by without a few $M of software to automate these processes and protect it from extreme risks. However, it couldn't survive even a single night of failure. It's like a player in an online poker tournament who makes extreme and unnecessary all-in bets to steal pots: The strategy works really well until the last time you try it.

I wonder if management/investors were really aware of the risk profile they had implicitly accepted.



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