One of the "fun" things when I worked at a big company was thinking through how to make the very first launched version of something work at millions-of-users scale. There is no organic growth in traffic from zero when a non-negligible subset of billions of active users will try it out right away.
But I think on net it was still an easier problem than scaling a startup product from zero, because the tooling and processes to support huge usage is already so mature at these big companies.
But still there probably is all sorts of juicy details that would be neat to hear about