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by jimbokun 2990 days ago
To spend on rewriting the application in another language.
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AKA a "nice problem to have" ("oh, we're now so successful we have to rewrite the app in another language to lower our infrastructure costs".

Most of the time you aren't gonna need it (because you wont go far anyway as a company). And when you do -- like Twitter and Facebook did, you'll be swimming in users and money already anyway...