[davnicwil]

> Very few companies have ever failed because their tech stack didn't scale well

Just out of interest, are there any clear examples where this happened, ever? Can anyone name any?

What I mean specifically is - a company with a well known product that was growing in popularity but then hit a ceiling because of technical scale issues and couldn't support any more customers, growth halted, and they couldn't fix it in time to keep the momentum going (or got overtaken by a competitor) and failed?

[zmj]

It happens all the time. When it does, though, the narrative is usually "scrappy upstart takes over" and not "segment leader fossilizes".

[rwallace]

So what would be some examples of when a scrappy upstart took over because the segment leader ran into tech stack scaling issues? (As opposed to the segment leader running into corrupt or incompetent management, failing to notice a new market opportunity etc.)