On: How To Scale A $1 Billion Startup (Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger)

[brlewis]

There's a lot in there about specifically what they did, with repeated cautions not to overcomplicate a scaling solution.

For most of us on HN, though, I think only these slides are needed:

180 don't over-optimize or expect to know ahead of time how site will scale

184 few, if any, unsolvable scaling challenges for a social startup

185 have fun