Does anyone have a theory on what enabled Instagram to get to 27m users with only 13 employees in 2012, and why that still seems very difficult today despite all the SASS products helping startups?

Some game companies also used to release a new game monthly in the 90s, without code completion, Copilot, Git, Github!

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My 2 gwei: 

It was a completely different time than today (far less competition for our attention) and they revolutionized the way people kept up to date with their friends - they simplified facebook and hyper focused it on images.