Ultimately, how many engineers a company has is not that relevant when it comes to scaling. A small team of product-oriented engineers with a devops mentality

Ultimately, how many engineers a company has is not that relevant when it comes to scaling. A small team of product-oriented engineers with a devops mentality can easily develop, maintain, and continuously deploy a considerably complex application. A similarly complex project in the hands of a larger sales driven company often resembles a spaghetti ball, and is held together with rotting shell scripts and unproductive manual processes.