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many fascinating scalability and algorithmic challenges... do not occur until the stage where these companies are no longer start-ups I agree with your point t
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
many fascinating scalability and algorithmic challenges... do not occur until the stage where these companies are no longer start-ups
I agree with your point that you shouldn't think about scaling too soon, but you're overstating the case. Twitter is still a startup. And they emphatically did have to worry about algorithms and scaling while they were still a startup.
- strlen 17y agoGood point, corrected my post. My point isn't "don't worry about scaling" (in fact, large scale distributed computing is pretty much my own area of expertise/interest). My point is that there's a lot of glory stories of grand technological challenges, but they do not occur at your typical early stage start-up. If you want to solve these kind of problems, you're best off joining a company that's experience them (and not joining an early stage start-up and wishing they would: been there, done that).