> Coinbase might have been fine blowing 65 mil but take that approach to a new startup and you could trivially eat up a significant amount of runway with it.

Most startups are not going to have anywhere near the scale to generate anything approaching this bill.

> I won’t single out Datadog on this because the exact same thing happens with cloud spend, and it’s very literally burning money.

Unless you're in the business of deploying and maintaining production-ready datacenters at scale, it very literally isn't.