The author really extracted the core tenants of exactly how my former research mentor and I ended up building our business.

We started with the second two points: our core technology was a sampler that enables arbitrary hierarchical Bayesian graph models for sparse data, our constraint was cpu bound tractable compute. The piece that took us the longest to discover was the fact that our end products need to be separate from our underlying technology.

We were given that advice in various words from many people even before we started but some lessons need to be lived to be learned.