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Oct 2022
25m 55s

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Ed...

Y Combinator
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Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on software hacks that don't scale. Companies discussed include Google, Facebook, Twitch, and imeem. Watch the first video on doing things that don't scale here: https://youtu.be/4RMjQal_c4U

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