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The Startup Sins Of Uber, Why Scaling Is Overrated, and More

My First Million

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Is Facebook Scalable?

The first or second employee at Uber was a Mexican guy. The early versions of Uber were written with a ton of Spanish in the code. Travis and Garrett didn't work on it full time. They outsourced the coding. And think about how many rules of Uber got violated? Like, for every day your operational UO is $5,000 per day they just kept going.

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