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In contrast, there are a lot of systems out there designed to scale up really quickly, but never achieve the product-market fit to ever need this.

All that engineering for scalability would have been better applied toward things to find the right product-market fit.

It’s hard to strike the right balance of engineering in all aspects of a product. But I’d rather be at a company forced to pour hours of senior engineering effort into fixing scalability than one where things can scale to hundreds of millions of users, but you never attract more than a few thousand.