Startup Scaling

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Copplestone: Only the heroes themselves can fix a startup's hero culture
“And then you get this hero culture internally where they're the only ones that can solve it. But that's very hard to solve because the only people that can solve a hero culture is the heroes themselves. They have to hire those people and train them up and offl…”
Paul Copplestone Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 56:23 The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
a16z Insight
Jeff Jordan: LTV-to-CAC ratios almost always degrade as startups scale
“That LTV to CAC ratio in our experience almost always degrades as over time with scale.”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:00 a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition

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