> Couchsurfing never reached an industrial scale Since when was being a startup founder supposed to scale at that level? Realistically, the number of people t

> Couchsurfing never reached an industrial scale Since when was being a startup founder supposed to scale at that level? Realistically, the number of people trying to do startups will be consistently small. They either grow into stable businesses 5-6 years down the line, or they sputter out and fail in that time or less. If a big chunk of our economy was based on < Series B level startups, we'd be in for a giant crash of epic proportions.