Rare things become common at scale
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Rare things become common at scale
As the company grows and the organization scales, your role within the organization will change. It will become a lot narrower and more focused and this frustrates most early employees. But that doesn’t mean you’re having less impact, you are probably having a larger impact in a more focused area. So, you’re right, if you’re just heads down and do
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
It takes enormous discipline to NOT try to scale something that's working.
But some things just don't scale -- and trying to do so can destroy the golden goose in the process.
Many entrepreneurially minded people can't help themselves from trying.
software development actually suffers from diseconomies of scale: the more engineers, the slower it goes.