Hiring has never happened so fast. Especially in tech, where being first to market can give you a considerable advantage. Just take grocery delivery company, Instacart, which grew from 91 full-time employees in January 2015 to over 300 today. This kind of hyper hiring comes with risks. Success isn’t measured on the amount of staff you employ, especially if your user base and revenue aren’t growing at the same speed. Scaling has to be sustainable. You should be building your business as a solid, stable skyscraper that will be around for years, not a tower of cards wavering in the wind.…
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