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Growth in users or revenue does not always cause growth of headcount, but they are definitely correlated, especially in organizations with sales teams.
by austenallred 11y ago
Growth in users or revenue does not always cause growth of headcount, but they are definitely correlated, especially in organizations with sales teams.
- crdb 11y agoOf course, but I was countering the OP's point that "If you can comfortably occupy the same amount of space for 2+ years, you're not a startup, you're a small business." I agree with pg's definition of a startup as being about growth (in the eponymous essay). In users, not headcount, in revenue, not funding. Even if there are many cases where one drives the other, targeting headcount growth and fundraise amounts as success KPIs is an instance of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect.