I've seen this a couple times; a startup makes it past whatever threshold you'd consider a startup, but doesn't want to let go of that "culture" or zeitgeist, o

I've seen this a couple times; a startup makes it past whatever threshold you'd consider a startup, but doesn't want to let go of that "culture" or zeitgeist, or whatever romantic notion they had of yore. In one case they were bought, so now they were part of a 75k+ employee behemoth. But still, with only some irony, called themselves "scrappy". In another they're still privately owned, but are over 7 years old, with close to 500 employees, and allegedly #1 in their space. I feel they like to hide behind this "startup" idea because it relieves them of putting on the big-boy pants and accepting that the expense of moving fast being the #1 priority is actually something they're having a hard time paying.