There's a saying, "Failure: Perhaps your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others." It seems that has been PowerSchool's purpose. There are many roads to success, and while a single thing can lead to failure, usually it requires many things coming together to fail spectacularly. Every company has elements of PowerSchool's failure in them, PowerSchool just managed to bring them all together in one place. But even in failure, there were many "how not to" lessons that can be learned. PowerSchool showed us all how not to put marketing and sales above sanity and engineering, how not to over-hire and over-fire, how not to treat people or customers, how not to manage an organization or people, how not to act in an irresponsible manner to your investors or employees, and how not to finance or run a business.