Wrestling with our company's growth

Jon and Justin are wrestling with thoughts about growth:


"Our current rate of growth is nice: it feels sustainable." –
Justin

"It feels less sustainable for me, because I'm working a
full-time job." – Jon

We’re able to keep up with demand, and enjoy the process.

There are all these stories about folks whose companies are
growing like crazy. They’re just always adding more people, more
process, more stress. Do we want that?

Peldi tells this story about starting Balsamiq. He said his
launch was like “holding on to a rocket ship with his
fingernails.”

Some folks would say we should be capturing
more of the market. There’s this idea that you
can’t be satisfied with what you have. That you have to juice
every bit of growth you can.

But then you’re building all of these dependencies that you
have to keep up even when the market goes down.



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Show notes:


Greg Wade, the baker that Jon apprenticed with, just won a
James Beard award.

Peldi's interview on Indie Hackers.

Paul Jarvis on growth and sustainability.

Bootstrapped Web podcast: Jordan loves building his team.



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