[tlb]

In almost everyone's experience, almost everything doesn't scale. Figuring out how to make something scale is a rare event.

I say this having heard, while debating the potential of various startups, probably 10000 arguments for or against something being able to scale. In the end, no amount of wisdom makes you very good at predicting it. Everything doesn't scale until someone figures out how to make it scale. So you bet on smart, energetic founders to figure it out.

Often the scalable version looks different than the initial version. Maybe the million-person hackathon looks more like Repl.it than a room with laptops and teetering stacks of half-empty pizza boxes.