Part of what the author is getting at, as PG has said many times in one form or another: startups are businesses built for scale Brilliant jerks don't scal

Part of what the author is getting at, as PG has said many times in one form or another: startups are businesses built for scale Brilliant jerks don't scale. At some point in your company's growth phase, the challenge will be scaling the marketing/sales/engineering in a repeatable fashion. It's just a different problem that begins at the inflection point of product/market fit.