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Taylor Swift

Meet the new face of scalability — Taylor Swift.   Taylor sold out Madison Square Garden in 60 seconds today.  I heard it on the radio while driving home from the grocery store.  A quick glance at Wikipedia reveals that the Garden can hold 20,000 people center stage, plus an additional 19,522 end-stage (whatever that means).  That’s 39,522 transactions in 60 seconds, where each transaction costs $100 to $2369.  She earned more than $3.95M per minute.

That’s more than Amazon.com.  Say Amazon earns $20B a year.  Divide that by 6 days of sales (Monday-Saturday) and you get roughly $2.5M per hour. I used to like designing sites that can handle “partial Amazons.”  The new mantra should be “partial Taylors,” where a Taylor is $4M per minute or 40,000 transactions per minute.

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