[jwillmer]

The investors I know and have to work with are mostly no technicians. They scan the news for investments and reported problems in growing business. If you can convince them that you thought about scaling issues and know how to solve them then they come up you should be fine :)

[mmt]

That belies the previous assertion that they're concerned with the "how" of scaling. What you're desribing is merely the investor (usually VC, which has been discussed here before) behavior of demanding that founders have a confident answer to potential challenges, even if it's bluster.

That's a situation fairly far removed from a VC refusing to invest because the company isn't imitating a FAANG's architecture.