[askafriend]

People says this for literally every company and it's getting fairly annoying that so many people can't see how a global operations-heavy company that does business in 200+ countries and develops an incredibly complex product can require a lot of resources....it's almost like people who ask this question have never worked on scaling a real business before.

I mean theres everything from marketing, to customer support, to ground operations, to engineering, to site reliability, to infrastructure, to product, to internationalization to partnerships to HR to design to recruiting to leadership to driver onboarding to Uber Eats to self-driving...there are A LOT of moving parts in A LOT of different countries.

It is incredibly difficult to scale an operation like Uber and it takes a lot of people, time, and money.

There is a big difference between running a global business and a toy side project that someone pushed up to Heroku...and no..."b..b..but I can just add more servers" is not a valid scaling strategy for a business.

I know my comment is a bit more harsh than necessary but it's borne out of a pent up frustration after seeing a 100 of these same comments directed at every company in existence.

[aswanson]

Yeah, this reminds me of my brother saying to me, last year, that search isnt that complicated. How do you even respond to a statement like that?

[fizwhiz]

relevant: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/