Every Stage of Growth Breaks Something

The way you ship.

The way you communicate.

The way you hire, plan, lead.

If your startup feels messy, it’s not a failure — it’s a sign you grew.

But here’s the catch:

You can’t scale on yesterday’s systems.

What worked at 5 people will collapse at 15.

What worked at 15 won’t survive 50.

You have to rethink the company at every inflection point—

Org design, tech stack, process, roles, culture.

If you don’t, growth turns into chaos.

And chaos burns out good people.

This is the work most founders avoid.

But it’s the work that lets you keep growing without breaking everything you’ve built.

Ship fast. But refactor often — or your company becomes the legacy code.

The Baseline