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How to optimize for your tech company’s scarcest resource

September 11, 2019 by LaunchTomorrow Leave a Comment

Back in the 13th century, Princess Kinga of Hungary received an engagement ring from Duke Boleslaw of Poland. When discussing her dowry with her father, instead of just offering the usual “gold and money” which was relatively common in those situations, Kinga asked her father to gift a salt mine. Salt was a scarce resource and the only way to conserve food at the time, so it inherently had a lot value.

When gifted the largest mine in the Austro-Hungarian empire ( Maramureș ), she was worried that the whole mine couldn’t be moved to Poland and therefore she’d still be under the thumb of her parents. So after significant thought and even prayer, she dropped the engagement ring down the mine’s shaft.

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