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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college.

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The Future of Web Startups

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We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. In essense, let the market design the product. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. Weve done the same thing ourselves.

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