The hardest admission I can make is that we hired people in 2022 we had to let go in 2024. Overhiring during rapid growth feels like the safe move. It’s actually the one that costs you the most later. Building real process is slower and harder, but it’s the thing that scales. More headcount is just a more expensive way to delay fixing what’s actually broken.
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We had to let go of people in 2024 that we never should have hired in 2022. That's on me. Overhiring when you're growing really fast is natural. It's the easiest means to an int. Building process and procedure that actually works and can scale with the business is hard. You don't know where you're gonna go. You don't know what you need now that you may need to change later. So throwing people at problems instead of process and procedure is natural. However, what I caution you to do is really look at what are the processes and procedures that you need to scale your business. What are the most important things that throwing more people is only going to result in a bad thing at the end?
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