Is it premature scaling or is it forgetting you are building a product for people, not just giving yourself an excuse to code and play with cool technology.
> 70% of startups scaled prematurely along some dimension. While this number seemed high, this may go a long way towards explaining the 90% failure rate of startups
My point was for the younger startups that are surely part of his failure group. They scale their systems instead of their product because it's easier. You're right though, he talks more about larger, more mature startups.