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Doing things that don’t scale is THE way of scalable businesses.
A lot of first-time founders have this idea of a scalable startup. Their business is, from inception, designed to become a huge company. Zero to a million users using viral marketing and growth hacking, and once the network effect kicks in the numbers will paint a beautiful hockeystick chart. Thus, it’s important that the product can quickly scale to millions of active users.