What if getting bigger makes us a worse company?

It's become the fundamental startup dogma that if you want to be a real startup, you have to scale as fast as possible and become as big as possible.

Bigger team. Bigger revenue. Bigger everything.

What if the very things that make this company special right now, our culture, our energy, our freedom, get destroyed by growth? What if the freedom we fought so hard for turns into investor stress, board expectations, and straight-up self-loathing?

There's a point where the concept of growth masks the destruction of what made us great to begin with.

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