Notes on scale + quality
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Notes on scale + quality
scalability, which refers to a startup’s potential to grow quickly and achieve a desired exit.
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale .
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I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.
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I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.
Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
I think another driver of this sentiment and behavior is that chasing scale strips you of some humanity. It puts your head too high up in the clouds. It removes you from what happens in the real world with real people. Pursuing something that can’t scale does the exact opposite: it grounds you. It’s a comforting and healing next act.
Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
Patrick: I think the macro thing to bear in mind with a lot of culture stuff is that a rapidly scaling human organization is an unnatural thing. The vast majority of human organizations that we have experience with, be it the school, the family, the university, the local community, the church, whatever, these are not organizations that scale really
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
