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- Scaling down a company is generally hard and (lately) not done as often. It's pretty difficult to spend 6 years where hiring is your biggest priority (from ex
by pcsanwald 9y ago
- Scaling down a company is generally hard and (lately) not done as often. It's pretty difficult to spend 6 years where hiring is your biggest priority (from executive level on down) and then all of a sudden it isn't.
- It's quite common for investors to push hiring more people as a way to get more stuff done. The general refrain you will hear from many investors on how to (move faster|fix problem) is to hire for it.
- The default thing to do with capital to invest is to acquire/hire.
I guess to summarize, staying lean just isn't a priority for these companies or their investors. The expectation is enormous growth or failure. The reality is often quite more nuanced.
- neerkumar 9y agoIt is really hard to be efficient in terms of headcount. Every single manager inside the organization has a personal incentive in pushing to hire more people cause that's how we measure career growth. So they all come up with all sort of BS to justify hiring more people. The crazy thing is that it should be exactly the opposite. People should get more credit for achieving X with as few people as possible. Instead it works the other way round.
- artursapek 9y agoInteresting insights... thanks to you and parent. I have been thinking about this for a while. It feels very broken.