Why Startups Fall Apart at 50 Employees
Coaching your business from its teen phase to adulthood
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7 min readMar 19, 2019
Ask anyone who’s worked at more than one startup and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: Young companies start to go off the rails once they hit 50 employees. I call this the “teenager” startup phase, and I’ve been there several times, both as an employee and an executive.
