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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. It will probably involve writing some software, but fortunately we can do that.

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