It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there's some truth in it at least for anything infrastructure related. If your thing is a success, it almost certainly needs to

It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there's some truth in it at least for anything infrastructure related. If your thing is a success, it almost certainly needs to scale to Very Large numbers, and be reliable/distributed/performant/etc. So if you're proposing something that you expect to be successful but only needs a couple of VMs, it would be an outlier. (I work there)