> Look at what happened to Instagram. They almost lost it all because they hadn't planned for the possibility of handling scale quickly I had never heard this

> Look at what happened to Instagram. They almost lost it all because they hadn't planned for the possibility of handling scale quickly I had never heard this version before. The story I heard was that they pivoted from burbn, which they felt was to cluttered and unfocused. [1] If they followed your advice, they would have built a scaled up version of burbn, which nobody would have used. [1] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-billion-in-2-years-the-story-of-instagram-as-told-by-its-founders/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-billion-in-2-years-the-story-...