The big one is the thought that if you only have more people, we could get more things done. I've even had people tell me that we need to hire more people so that we can reach profitability faster. Founders feel like investors will be more impressed with them if they have more employees. And yeah, it risks becoming like a KPI, right? Then you focus on it.
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