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When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at the company will break at once. Most. but not all, of this breakage is avoidable, but most first-time (at scaling) founders screw it up[0]. The key to avoiding a melt-down is to hire key executives or functional leaders early. During break-out growth the following things start to happen: "The More More Moment": the pace of everything at the company accelerates. More customers, more support, more interest, more partnership offers - more more more more. Complexity goes up dramatically. You need to manage an ever expanding org with many new functions, geographies, products etc. You need to hire, retain, and communicate with more multiples of people. Going from 5 to 15 people feels like roughly the same company. Goi

Hiring Executives & Bad Advice Elad Gil Feb 02, 2021 2 Share When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at the company will break at once. Most. but not all, of this breakage is avoidable, but most first-time (at scaling) founders screw it up[0]. The key to avoiding a melt-down is to hire key executives or functional leaders early. During break-out growth the follo

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