Quotes About Scaling

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users.

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

Scaling up is every entrepreneur's dream — and nightmare. Hypergrowth is terrifying, and it's most often success that kills great companies. This

Valleys of Death" — those points in the company's growth where you're bigger, but not quite big enough to have the next level of talent and systems needed to scale the venture.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"? And second, how could I successfully scale adoption of an Agile approach across an enterprise and overcome the inevitable resistance to change?

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk up a few small victories. Once they've proved that their idea can work on a limited basis, they can begin to scale it up.

You don't get rewarded for creating great technology, not anymore," says a friend of mine who has worked in tech since the 1980s, a former investment banker who now advises start-ups. "It's all about the business model. The market pays you to have a company that scales quickly. It's all about getting big fast. Don't be profitable, just get big.

It's all about the business model. The market pays you to have a company that scales quickly. It's all about getting big fast. Don't be profitable, just get big.

Batch size is a tremendously useful tool for reducing queues.

And when he finally plotted it all up, there it was: the number of cell types in an organism did indeed scale roughly as the square root of the number of genes it had.

Later, as we neared the $1 billion in revenue mark, we didn't focus on $1 billion in revenue, but what we needed to do to get to $10 billion in revenue.