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The many comments alluding to the technical challenge of building a chat app with 50 engineers being relatively easy are forgetting that scaling said chat app to 1 billion users is absolutely not easy and a function of more than just the engineering quality and technical challenge. There's MUCH more to a successful product than engineering...


... such as? Don't leave us hanging!


I'd imagine getting the users in the first place. That has nothing to do with engineering quality and scaling up, though.




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