The newsroom Borrowed leverage: partners, resellers, and the myth of ‘direct’ When someone says ‘go direct’, I always ask, ‘Direct to what?’ Photo by Mark König / Unsplash
The monster under the bed was always in the contract Many cloud strategies were built on assumptions that were never written down. Prices would not rise. Services would not disappear. Performance would hold. None of that was guaranteed. When assumptions live outside the contract, they stop being comfort and start being risk.