Scaling a Startup Is Like Playing Call of Duty Zombies

by Justin Skycak (@justinskycak) on

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Scaling a startup is eerily similar to playing Call of Duty Zombies, where the zombies are items on your to-do list.

At first you can just run around sporadically. But pretty quickly it gets to the point that you need to funnel the zombies through a pipeline and destroy them in batch with heavy machinery.

And you need to guard/fortify particular pressure points.

Every once in a while some zombie breaks through out of nowhere and all hell breaks loose as you try to contain and resolve the situation.

Or sometimes it’s just a crawler that was moving so slowly that it slid under the radar and snuck up on you.



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