Almost the entire downfall of the modern tech industry can be attributed to two things: greed, and the fetishization of "scale."
Not everything has to scale. Not everything should scale. Scale is too often used as an excuse to pinch pennies. If you business model only works at massive scale, then your business model might be broken. (Not always, but more often than most people think.)
That's a feature, not a bug.
Almost the entire downfall of the modern tech industry can be attributed to two things: greed, and the fetishization of "scale."
Not everything has to scale. Not everything should scale. Scale is too often used as an excuse to pinch pennies. If you business model only works at massive scale, then your business model might be broken. (Not always, but more often than most people think.)