GoScale
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
GoScale was a cloud infrastructure startup founded by Colin Hayhurst and James Cunningham that joined Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. It offered infrastructure-as-a-service with dynamically scaling virtual machines: users could instantly increase or decrease memory, disk space and processor power without restarting, addressing the fluctuating traffic demands of web applications.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Founded
GoScale was founded by Colin Hayhurst and James Cunningham and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch with its dynamically scaling cloud-server platform.
- Ceased trading
GoScale stopped trading in 2014, as stated on its own website.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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