Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "The Rise And Fall Of Blitzscaling!" video.

  1. Blitzscaling IMO can never be successful - in 2010 I had a company that went viral - the sales doubled every 6 months. I was very quickly worth €6 million. It ended because I suffered brain damage in a mugging - BUT IT WOULD HAVE ENDED ANYWAY - it may have ended at $10 million or $10 billion but it would have ended. You simply can NOT scale real-world infrastructure and resources as quickly as you can grow an online company. We NEVER had a proper stock control system, by the time we implemented one the company had outgrown its capacity. So you research and speck another - that's 3 or 4 months - the speck had DOUBLED in that time so you times by 4 your projected capacity but THEN you realise the growth rate so you times by 12 the capacity to allow for growth and then you get it costed and to costs 5X what you can afford TODAY with TODAY's revenue. so you scale it back to 6 X. Then you go to find the system - 3 months Then you implement the system - that takes 3 months. And then just as everyone is familiar with it, its too small to cope with your new level of business complexity. This is just one oversimplified example of the problems you face, you CAN NOT sustain exponential growth in a linear world.
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