Obviously, yes. I just pointed out the dotcom boom companies as examples of that. Free server hardware would have helped Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. to sc

Obviously, yes. I just pointed out the dotcom boom companies as examples of that. Free server hardware would have helped Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. to scale up faster too but they managed to grow just fine having to pay for servers. Their business models were so incredibly successful that they could have afforded to pay for software too without drastically lowering their growth.