> It often leads to what I call the "hiring death cycle." A startup faced with a problem tends to hire more people, making it harder to solve the problem and th

> It often leads to what I call the "hiring death cycle." A startup faced with a problem tends to hire more people, making it harder to solve the problem and thus requiring even more hires. The death cycle is reinforced by the "next hire fallacy," in which, supposedly, the next recruit will suddenly solve the problem. It's common to fall into this vicious cycle and hard to break out of it. Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month