> There's no reason that companies "need to scale".

That just seems silly to me. There are fundamentally lots of problems that require the labor of hundreds or thousands of people. You're not building a jet airplane with a team of 25, nor an advanced computer chip, nor, in AirBnB's case, a global peer-to-peer booking platform.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that many companies grow prematurely, or that they grow "just for growth's sake", but I don't like thinking that an answer to a problem is to just pretend it doesn't exist.