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20VC: Affirm Max Levchin on Why Grading Talent by Letter (A or B) is Total BS | How to Create a Culture of Post Mortems and Writing | Why You Should Only Study Failure Not Success & The Biggest Surprises Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap

1110.166 - 1125.35 Max Levchin

At some point, given the architecture of the system, you will have what's called an oversubscription of front end connections to the back end. And the back end will start choking because even if front end doesn't do anything, just holding these connections is expensive. If you have like a 10x mismatch, you're going to bring down the database. And that is what happened.

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