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Scaling way past 10x. If we look at only software companies and their revenue per user (Facebook is a good choice for me) and compare it to the amortized cost of an iPhone then it might come close to even

roon

@tszzl

Mar 31

right and facebook had to re-engineer everything like 10 times it's true margins are still amazing but a startup probably shouldn't be worried about compute costs more than abt actually pushing products bc if the initial experiment works they're gonna rewrite everything anyway

Daniel

@growing_daniel

Mar 31

Sure for MVPs but this conversation was about companies like twitter

8teAPi

@8teAPi

Mar 31

Well path dependency and hurdles are a thing right. It’s not about average cost at end state but how you get there. Lean startup methodology is to use cash to test theses and then to build based on those results rather YOLO Webvanning it.

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Yes this conversation started because of twitter needing a gig of memory to run, this isn't a conversation about lean startups Companies that are not in startup thread the needle mode tend to not invest enough in making their code performant. Nothing said here challenges that.

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