“You earn the privilege to work on scalable things, by making something people want first” - best quote from this video!

Just when you think this series cant get better it does! Great episode.

The Gmail story is fantastic, but the FB one is a good reminder for me to stop worrying about technical debt and poor architecture when building MVPs. Thanks for yet another great episode, Dalton and Michael!

One of the key points that I think is missed whenever people say do things that don't scale in software is that today's software is not comparable to 10 20 years ago software. The users' standards are much higher now. I wish they talked about this too.

did someone flush a toilet at @10:39 ? Awesome video btw, love you guys, always learn a lot from you.

Awesome as always! I would love to see a whole series specifically on stories doing things that don't scale. It would be so cool if you invited founders on here directly to tell their stories, even if it was a simple remote conversations like you've been doing. It would also be cool to hear from Paul directly with more examples of the 90/10 rule. Great stuff!

Thank you for publishing this, I’ve been living your things that don’t scale series. My business is at TheFacebook stage where we’re turning the water on and fixing the pipes as we go along with onboarding customers in a legacy B2B industry. I’ve been learning a lot and using your wisdom to try to improve things as we plug along. Thank you and I hope you keep putting this content out there.

Amazing stories, and Michael always finds a great analogy to explain the point!

This is one of the best episodes. These practical examples are much easier to relate to. Thank you!

Packed with fantastic insights and great war-trench stories from really smart founders with great instincts. This should be part of every single "Product thinking 101" course. Thanks guys for posting!! 😀🙏👏👍

These are so good and full of learning! I am already applying my learnings to my startup idea. You guys are creating a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs!! Keep these coming!!

I was eagerly waiting for your videos

The invite system is really a gem you've thrown in here, a very great episode.

I love you guys. Can you do an episode on non-tech founders and tech founders and the relationship between them? I know Michael Seibel talked about this in some separate videos, but think it could be an interesting topic to make another episode on.

I love these stories! You guys should write a book compiling all these interesting stories!!

This information is so invaluable thank you Michael, Dalton and YC

Great story about Facebook servers guys! Never heard those details before. Doing the same, using a DO droplet for each campus. Figure out real scaling later.

This advice came at a critical point where my team is building an MVP and I am worried about technical debts when we don't even have a single user yet to break anything. Watching them laugh at FB and Google early days, makes me laugh at myself harder 😂. Great episode! 🤯❤‍🔥

Yayyy! My favorite time of the week is here again. I've said it before, I'll say it again, and again; thanks Dalton and Micheal.

I am working on a product right now, and just discovered this series. Great stuff!

i wish i could have a video like this every day. Such good content! thanks a lot

Awesome Series! You both just saved our startup from the perfection Syndrome! We thought we had to not do things that scale but that's exactly what we need to be doing at these beginning stages ! All your resources have being a life saver ! Thanks

As an entrepreneur in the early stages of product startup( love building product) , always freaking out about scaling this is an amazing video ❤️

My only thought is regarding doing stuff that does not scale is I think it matters where you are in the tech timeframe. Back when facebook started in the early 2000's, serverless was not a paradigm or I don't think had existed or sold commercially yet. That makes sense for to build this way because it was based on access patterns per college and was probably faster. However, with the advent of serverless technologies and pay as you go dbs, if you tried to build an app like that today, it would be really insane to manage. Today the easability of building it scalable initially is not that much more difficult that building in an unscalable way. The largest barrier is just finding the hire that knows that already. In other words, if you build stuff today because tech has advanced soo much in the past 10-15 years, you can't apply that style of thinking. However where you can apply this thinking is understanding who your target market is for the product. You don't necessarily have to build it fully out initially but over time.

Really like your serie guys. There is a real complicity between Dalton and Michael, the mix of you two is just perfect. Pure rationality, pure understanding of people, pure wise advice.

Really like the water pipe in the house metaphor, thanks.

Thank you for sharing this Michael and DC

Always a pleasure listening to these two

Great episode ! The pipe analogy is amazing. Thats what I am trying to teach on my channel also !

Things That Don't Scale is the best article of PG. Super great analogy with water pipes.

I enjoy following these videos, great job guys:)

I have watched countless videos and FINALLY I got real insight about scaling! A thousand thank yous for helping take my products out of launching limbo!🎉

As a technical cofounder, today's video is so helpful and enjoyable.

This is pure gold. Truly valuable insights.

What a great episode ... amazing take aways!!! Kirk

This is so good! Who would have known startups had so many issues to overcome 🙂

Thank you so much! Amazing start up speakers.

Totally didn't know about Map Reduce before this video - great video

Godbless you guys!! Exactly when I needed to hear this again. Fake it until you make it!

Awesome video. I was always looking for something like this that I can apply to my SaaS startup.

Awesome as always! How are you editing the videos for youTube? What are your biggest pain points while editing the video?

I love it! It gave me optimism I just needed so much now!

Favorite video so far!

Such an amazing episode

Watching you From Cameroon🇨🇲, thank you for this amazing knowledge that you share freely🍻

“Earn the privilege to work on scalable things” 💯

This series is 🔥🔥

Yeah totally agree that for specific software there is really little risk to failure and fix on the fly. However, there can be software where life’s can be at risk or the cost of failure is so high that it may terminate the product. So yeah good lessons but important to keep this in mind. MCAS is a good lesson.

As a founder, I cannot agree more with you. don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. Though it sounds simple it's the one of the hardest things to do as there are a lot of temptation to lose your focus and start over engineering the product or service you are working on. Love you videos and love you guys, keep on sharing such information. Cheers

Going to come back to this. Great advice and stories.

"A recurring theme is a lot of the best products decisions are the ones made kind of fast and kind of under duress... its like when its 8pm in the office and the sites down, you tend to come up with good decisions on this stuff" - Dalton Caldwell 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

Most amazing piece of advice

Great Episode!

I love these conversations.

This is just outstanding stuff.

this channel is a goldmine

Thank you so much for sharing

Love these videos! 🙂

Great video! Thank you!:-)

I hope this is good advice, I am going to try and apply this ocer the next week.

you guys should put this on a podcast / audio only situation so we can watch it on the move

Problem i have is that I happily do the 90/10 thing on stuff I dont like doing but things I do like doing or am passionate about, I become a perfectionist

Love the creativity of founders and entrepreneurs where necessity is the mother of invention

Great Information Guys 🏀🐝

Would love if you convince other YC founder's to join as well. Especially to talk about blockchain startups.

I love this series! When can I watch the next ep?

YC: "How would you feel if Michael and Dalton stopped posting these videos?" Me: "Very very upset" YC: "Ok, next we're doing a talk on how to measure PMF"

This is so good that I think everyone should know !!!

This is so amazing holy cow 🤯

If that's what you mean by doing things that don't scale, then it makes sense. What I thought you guys meant is things like Dennis Ritchie offering to personally compile his colleague's C code into assembler without first writing a C compiller, Tim Berners Lee offering to personally format documents for his friends without writing an HTML parser, or Mark Zuckerberg offering to personally courier messages from friend-to-friend at Harvard without building the first version of Facebook.

Very insightful

Thanks to youtube ads that I have found & watched this video :) NIce stories.

Wow, awesome stories!

I own the most innovate ISP with hardware in Data Centres so I still have to drive to the Data Centre at 2AM when things go wrong :( I remember about 10 months ago having to drive to the Data Centre at 12AM due to one of my Routers locking up. I ripped that Router out of my Data Centre colocation as fast as possible. Internet Exchanges (IXs) are where BGP peering with other networks is done :) I loved hearing your hostage tactic to force the Swedish ISP to peer with you lol.

Michael’s nodding intensity correlates with the quality of the content.

so nice ! thanks !

Hello! Have you done a hardware edition :) i've seen most of the other videos, didn't see anything that's hardware specific (pebble comes to mind) but thats a little bit in the past. Anyone else got a lead/video i can follow?

The hack Seibel mentions at 20:09 is what Facebook famously did with its own translations as well - helping the platform breakout to 1B+ users (at a time its own forecasts were suggesting the website won't grow beyond 500M-750M users).

amazing video

Hey could you upload these to the Google and apple podcasts apps?

i seriously love you two

God this made me LOVE AND APPRECIATE AWS so much more 😂😂😂

PG should post a link to this video on his Do Things that Don’t Scale essay

That Facebook story is amazing!

These are modern day “war” stories, love it.

90/10 just sounds like the more famous 80/20 principle.

Do you have any examples from companies that are B2B?

bio side: people's attitudes don't scale but the neurochemical scale

Dalton and Micheal ; it was created under duress Me; Necessity is the mother of invention.

I always enjoy hearing stories of how Facebook, Gmail and others did it

RealPlayer. Wow. I must be old. I remember that.

my bois got to much swag

KZfaq algorithm should tell me to watch this more later

The story of twitch is like the real hackerman solutions

Increase the frequency to twice a week

Twitch was built on Arconai's back. Michael knows who that is. He told a chat room he met you in real life.

@10:36 epic flush

Such a facebook move 12:35

In one of these videos they comment on how Reddit started, but I can't find the one! Does anybody remember?

Move fast break things