Do you think its related to scale? As in, once a company has enough paying customers to become profitable/investable, it has also accrued enough issues to where it starts feeling fresh and exciting like you said, and gradually becomes like the older competitor it once wanted to replace?
This is my experience at least. Once the company goes from a few pizzas to "we've booked a venue", entropy creeps in and adages like Conway's/Brook's law become increasingly evident.
The skillset of successfully founding a company and the skillset of successfully scaling a company are not the same. The latter is a hard thing to do that requires understanding both customers (current and potential) that you never speak to and employees that you barely speak to.
Do you think its related to scale? As in, once a company has enough paying customers to become profitable/investable, it has also accrued enough issues to where it starts feeling fresh and exciting like you said, and gradually becomes like the older competitor it once wanted to replace?
This is my experience at least. Once the company goes from a few pizzas to "we've booked a venue", entropy creeps in and adages like Conway's/Brook's law become increasingly evident.