The idea that a company on the scale of Meetup could be effectively run by 5 people in a basement strikes me as completely absurd.
I've seen similar comments about companies like Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, and even Facebook and I'm really in awe of how completely out of touch with the reality of what it takes to run a global business with millions of users and customers people have to be to suggest these things.
Do people imagine you can just take the UI, have a few people wire it up to scale in "the cloud" and basically call it a day?
I've seen similar comments about companies like Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, and even Facebook and I'm really in awe of how completely out of touch with the reality of what it takes to run a global business with millions of users and customers people have to be to suggest these things.
Do people imagine you can just take the UI, have a few people wire it up to scale in "the cloud" and basically call it a day?