There's a vast marketing industrial complex of agencies/consultants/advisors/whatever that promotes tech startups spending billions of dollars of unaccountable marketing budget. They're triggered by my anti-paid stance but here's the reality: - paid marketing is much, much worse than organic on every metric (conversion, ROI, etc) - startups work on a fast time scale and can't manage LTV/CAC correctly beyond a months timeframe - risk is asymmetric. a few bad cohorts can kill you (and btw, this…