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Ask HN: What are your experiences with scaling a company?

We could write a whole book on this. If you're VC backed and aiming to grow the usual 10x-20x per year, you'll end up changing everything drastically all the time. You end up with a different company every 6-18 months. I've had 5 direct manager switches on the last 3 years. The more complex your business, the more painful these reorgs will be.Scaling isn't usually about making numbers grow. It's about complexity. Complexity goes up exponentially with verticals you're in. Every product has its ow...

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