> I think it’s worth mentioning that most of these problems only occur at a scale that only top 1% of companies will reach I'll echo what another commenter sai

> I think it’s worth mentioning that most of these problems only occur at a scale that only top 1% of companies will reach I'll echo what another commenter said. Tons of data != tons of profit. Tons of data just means tons of data. Source: Worked on an industrial operations workflow application that handled literally _billions_ of records in the database. Sure, the companies using the software were highly profitable, but I wouldn't have called the company I worked with 'top 1%' considering it was a startup.