Comment by danielmarkbruce

Sure, if the acquirer thinks the product is going to sell a lot.

A relatively common plan (it doesn't always work) for large enterprise software companies is to buy a product and then use their very large sales force to sell it into all their existing customers. If thats the plan, you have to make sure the product will work with all the increased usage.

I'd still suggest it's far better to optimize for building the right product - the "is this going to scale" problem is one of the nicest problems you can face.