The document summarizes the technical and business challenges faced by Lalamove as it grew from 3 engineers to over 1500 employees. It outlines 3 main business challenges - focusing the company's efforts, making decisions based on limited data, and dealing with competitors - and the lessons learned from addressing each challenge. It also describes 3 technical challenges - managing requirements, supporting multiple countries and languages, and architectural scaling - along with the lessons learned from overcoming these challenges. The document encourages the audience to take on big challenges and stresses that with the right approach, they can be overcome.

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Alex Fok, CTO@Lalamove
The Hard thing about Hard Things
Technical Challenges for Startups Growing at Lightspeed

2. Roadmap of Lalamove

3. Pace of the company
Start from
3Engineers
Launch MVP in
2Months
Release
1Per Month

4. Pace of the company
More than
1500Employees
Around
100Engineers
Release
3-5Per Week

5. Business Challenges

6. Business challenge 1: What to do?
Too many
ideas
Expand too
fast
Too many
problems

7. Lesson learnt 1
Focus on
your market
Communicate
with WHY
Prioritize,
plan and align

8. Business challenge 2: How?
To make
decision
Do A or BKnow right
or wrong

9. Lesson learnt 2
To make decision
based on data
Small change,
iterate faster
Test and
keep track

10. Business challenge 3: What should I do?
Lots of
competitors
They have
lots of money

11. Lesson learnt 3
Focus on what
you believe

12. Tech Challenges

13. Tech challenge 1
Requirements

14. Lesson learnt 1
Plan,
Iterate,
Fail,
Learn faster

15. Tech challenge 2
Multiple countries,
Bilingual,
Different requests

16. Lesson learnt 2
Flexibility,
End goal,
Phases

17. Tech challenge 3
Architecture scaling

18. Lesson learnt 3
3rd
party

19. Don’t be afraid to do something big
We can do that!

20. Q & A