> I remember a couple years ago there was a guy claiming he could run Twitter himself on 4 really big servers. I worked with said person and I feel like he wou

> I remember a couple years ago there was a guy claiming he could run Twitter himself on 4 really big servers. I worked with said person and I feel like he would get along very well with Arthur Whitney. It's definitely easy to make guesses on how an org could be streamlined from the outside. Though Medium needed to grow quickly and that takes having a lot of people to create features, sell, etc. They didn't grow and needed to scale back and change their strategy. I've seen quite a few startups go through continuous hiring booms then layoffs over and over again.