But it's normally not a good idea to grow by "hiring a lot of people fast". Startups outside of SV aren't really interested in the rocket growth. What happens

But it's normally not a good idea to grow by "hiring a lot of people fast". Startups outside of SV aren't really interested in the rocket growth. What happens usually is that companies with that hockey-stick growth generally just have a lot of layoffs down the road, e.g. Zynga (if they're not bought out for way too much money before this can occur). The navel-gazing doesn't really occur outside of that environment, and the "need to scale" is really just a pissing contest that amateurs crow about while the real men and women get shit done by growing organically, turning a solid profit quarter after quarter and not caring what SV hipsters that don't know what the word profit means say they need to do.