It's like the tyranny of the rocket equation, but for companies. To do more (ex open in different markets) you need more people, but with more people you need

It's like the tyranny of the rocket equation, but for companies. To do more (ex open in different markets) you need more people, but with more people you need more support people, which also need to be supported in turn ... Next thing you know you have 5 engineers on Chaos Monkey so that your 20 SREs can more easily test their globally distributed low-latency CDN. You also have region lawyer manager VPs who manage lawyer teams per country, and are in turn managed by your glonal Head of Lawyering. Who also has an administrative assistant otherwise theyd lose head over the schedule and their tasks... And we didn't even get to the programmers yet. In rockets, to go a bit faster or haul a bit more mass, you need a lot more fuel. Orgs are the same. Except they don't explode. Usually.