[I will not promote] The offshore metrics I eventually stopped caring about after 20+ years

One thing I've noticed as startups scale offshore teams is that they often optimize for the metrics that matter at the beginning, but not necessarily the ones that matter once the team becomes a core part of the business. When companies are evaluating offshore partners, the questions are usually: What's the hourly rate? How quickly can they hire? How many candidates can they send? How much money will we save? Those are all reasonable questions. But looking back at the longest-lasting offshore partnerships I