"The ability to scale with success is important, but designing products for high scalability from Day 1 is usually a mistake. ("Premature optimization is the ro

"The ability to scale with success is important, but designing products for high scalability from Day 1 is usually a mistake. ("Premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth)" He is using the quote wrong. A scalable product and an MVP are build entirely differently. Both scalable product and MVP can have technical debt, but I wouldn't say the scalable product is the optimized version of the MVP.