My interpretation of YC’s original claim is something like: there’s a binary jump between “you’re a few friend-colleagues working together in a basement” and “you’re a company that has begun to have to build bureaucracy for itself”, and as soon as you start doing that you incur a huge cost, both in the sheer time you have to spend managing people, and in your ability to coordinate pivots.
I think I was making a fairly different point that was more “inspired by” this point than directly connected to it.
My interpretation of YC’s original claim is something like: there’s a binary jump between “you’re a few friend-colleagues working together in a basement” and “you’re a company that has begun to have to build bureaucracy for itself”, and as soon as you start doing that you incur a huge cost, both in the sheer time you have to spend managing people, and in your ability to coordinate pivots.
I think I was making a fairly different point that was more “inspired by” this point than directly connected to it.