Scalable

Definition

Something that can grow without breaking, a quality attributed to every startup pitch and approximately zero of their actual products. If you hear "it's scalable" often enough, you start to realize it's the business equivalent of "trust me, bro."

Example Usage

"Our solution is infinitely scalable," promised the vendor, whose demo crashed when a second user logged in.

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