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		johnisgood on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers I could scale to billions of users as a one-man engineer, but I would need a marketing team. :D What I am trying to say is that I could make a WhatsApp-equivalent relatively quickly, alone, yes, but that is definitely not enough to gain billions of users.

MomoXenosaga on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

They were at the right place at the right time. But people want to believe it is tech not luck...

There is a webshop in my country that copied Amazon in the early 2000s and today they are beating Amazon.

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