[starkfist]

Can you name a single startup that failed because of their inability to scale?

yeah - friendster.

[astrofinch]

Friendster is actually in decent shape today. So inability to scale didn't kill them--it just dealt them a very substantial blow.

Twitter would be an example of a startup that experienced severe scaling issues and still ended up on top.

Know any others?

[byoung2]

I remember the early days when you couldn't log in to Friendster for hours because the servers were overloaded!

[SkyMarshal]

Did they attribute their performance problems to tech stack or architecture? Or did they ever say?