According to New York magazine, "one tech worker quipped that a Stanford computer-science class could have built healthcare.gov for a thousandth of the reported $400 million–plus budget."
Matt Mullenweg, the co-developer of WordPress, said the Canadian firm that oversaw the healthcare.gov website received "more money than all the revenue of most Silicon Valley start-ups combined."
Eric Ries, described as a member of the "Silicon Valley's cognoscenti," said Healthcare.gov's failures represented "state-of-the-art incompetence."
