Hypergrowth
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Ugarte: Growing companies slow down even as teams pretend they remain startups
“As companies grow, and we've had the fortune of hiring really great people from other companies that have gone through hypergrowth, things slow down, and you kind of keep telling yourself, we're still a startup, we still move quickly, but you really don't, and…”
Lazarte: Board value depends on past hypergrowth exposure and context depth
“I think the way a board member adds, adds value is like, it's a function of two things. One is like, how exposed have you been to hypergrowth in the past? And then How much time do you put in to actually understand the context of the company so that they, that…”
Gurley: Hypergrowth delays microeconomics and temporarily masks margin durability
“Hypergrowth tends to delay what you learned in microeconomics class. You know, I remember when I was a PC analyst and there were five public PC companies all growing a hundred percent. And so in, in moments of hypergrowth, you will have margins that may or may…”
VCs ignore profitability but excuse margin flaws for hyper-growth startups
“And so they're not gonna give you credit because you're profitable. They're not gonna give you credit for lower growth because of macro issues. But what they will do is they get a little blind to hyper growth. Like they're so deaf because fewer companies are h…”