yyy but also remember survivor bias: for every AirBnB, there's dozens of companies whose founders ran them into the ground for all the usual reasons, of which "lack of scaling" is both a lazy umbrella and also a subset of the failure modes, including burnout, malfeasance, pivoting too quickly or too slowly, etc.
Consider the famous Osbourne Effect[1], so named after a founder who blew it spectacularly.
Or how about the famous fraudsters whose schemes got so large because they lacked basic controls? (Ponzi to Madoff, but also Elizabeth Holmes and SBF)
Or how about Jack Welch (GE) and David Calhoun (Boeing), lauded for years until their damage came to light?
Consider the famous Osbourne Effect[1], so named after a founder who blew it spectacularly.
Or how about the famous fraudsters whose schemes got so large because they lacked basic controls? (Ponzi to Madoff, but also Elizabeth Holmes and SBF)
Or how about Jack Welch (GE) and David Calhoun (Boeing), lauded for years until their damage came to light?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect