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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Go after it aggressively, even if it means risking making hiring and operating mistakes and wasting capital — so long as this capital is relatively cheap, as it was for Akamai in the midst of the Internet bubble. How did Akamai do it? Founding Akamai.

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