Building for Scale: Lessons from Fast-Growing Startups

# Scaling Your Startup Scaling is hard. Here's what successful founders told us: ## Start Simple Don't over-engineer from day one. Build what you need now. ## Monitor Everything You can't fix what you can't see. Invest in observability early. ## Automate Deployments Manual deployments become a bottleneck fast. ## Cache Strategically Not everything needs to be real-time. ## Plan for Failure Things will break. Have runbooks ready. The key takeaway? Focus on customer value first, then optimize.