Generally yes, for a few reasons related to the pursuit of growth itself: * Growth is always a core pursuit, and what is required for growth is not always to t

Generally yes, for a few reasons related to the pursuit of growth itself: * Growth is always a core pursuit, and what is required for growth is not always to the benefit of the core audience/user/customer * With growth, more humans get involved. Harder to manage many people and keep everyone on the same page, so systems and processes are developed to standardize and remove human error and reduce costs. A lot of babies go out with the bathwater in the process, and it's tough to avoid. * The bigger the org gets, the more it has to hire just to fill positions instead of hiring people who are truly the right fit. This has a compounding negative effect and further spreads decay. I think there's a sweet spot in size that varies for every org, but it's hard to know what that is: there are problems at every stage of company growth and tomorrow always seems like it's going to be better than today. In the early days it is. Eventually, without warning, it isn't.