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What Are The Unintended Consequences Of Startup Growth

Investors often have expectations different from those of a founder, and as a company gets bigger, the nature of work and focus of a founder has to change. It is simply not enough for a company to remain in its present state, as the markets won't let it.

This inevitably creates a struggle for the founder, and the company, but is only induced because of this constant need to grow bigger than their current state.

Y Combinator · Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) · at 36:23 · ·Transcript

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