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#9 - Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman - From Startup to Scaleup

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How to Stop Hyperscale a Company That Is Not Winning

The possibility of playing the game to win is really what you must always have. Without this natural updraft, all of the things that go wrong when you try to blitz scale can break the company. The key thing for me is don't try to do this until you're confident you have this updraft. Just how you stop blitz scaling, I feel like financial discipline is such a hallmark of some companies that to give it up for six months or 18 months and then come back may be hard.

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