&gt; In practice there is surprisingly little connection between how much a startup spends and how fast it grows. When a startup grows fast it&#x27;s usually because the product hits a nerve, in the sense of hitting some big need straight on.<p>Perhaps the most important underlying point in the article.<p>It&#x27;s easy to think that more people will make the company grow faster. Adding people actually makes it harder to tune a product&#x27;s direction (and thus growth rate).  Great to see another dense and on-point post from pg. Every sentence is worth several reads.