{"id":209105,"date":"2025-03-19T00:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/what-does-it-mean-for-a-technology-to-scale"},"modified":"2025-03-19T00:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:20:59","slug":"what-does-it-mean-for-a-technology-to-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/what-does-it-mean-for-a-technology-to-scale","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean for a technology to scale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-does-it-mean-for-a-technology-to-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An excellent concise newsletter article by the legendary Ben Reinhardt on how to think about scaling new technologies, what kinds of bottlenecks can occur, and strategies for maximizing chances of success. #development #industry #biotech #tech<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A particular failure mode that we\u2019ve noticed among scientists and engineers doing ambitious technology research is ignoring the question \u201cdoes this technology scale?\u201d It\u2019s a question that gets thrown around a lot by VCs and technology analysts, but people rarely unpack what that means and (I suspect) many of us don\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent concise newsletter article by the legendary Ben Reinhardt on how to think about scaling new technologies, what kinds of bottlenecks can occur, and strategies for maximizing chances of success. #development #industry #biotech #tech A particular failure mode that we\u2019ve noticed among scientists and engineers doing ambitious technology research is ignoring the question \u201cdoes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}