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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We scaled our company from zero to seventy million in revenue with just six people at the start, which was a challenging situation.

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Hosain Rahman at Startup School SV 2014

@ Y Combinator

10/15/14

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Aadit Palicha

04/18/25

@ Y Combinator

We went from close to zero in scale to 200 million in run scale in just six months, which was a crazy growth period for us.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We went from zero to seventy million in revenue in our first year after launching our product, which sold out in a few hours.

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Garry Tan

05/21/25

@ Vanta

Startups that rapidly scale to eight figures in revenue often do so with very small teams, demonstrating that fewer employees can still drive significant growth.

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Jeff Lawson

05/24/25

@ a16z speedrun

After realizing we needed to expand our sales team, we went from 12 to 100 salespeople in less than a year to better serve our growing customer base.

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Andrew Mason

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We expanded rapidly, adding staff from 50 to over a thousand in just a few months, which made it challenging to maintain a cohesive company culture.

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Michael Truell

05/01/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

Initially, we hired too slowly, which contributed to our rapid growth from $0 to $100 million ARR in just a year and a half.

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Parker Conrad

09/10/24

@ The Social Radars Podcast

I went from having $600 million in the bank and 1,500 employees to starting over from zero, but I was determined to rebuild what we had started at Zenefits.

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David Rusenko

09/06/18

@ Y Combinator

You should not scale a company past 20 people before achieving product-market fit; once you find it, scale aggressively.

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Ben Brook

04/19/25

@ EO

When scaling from 10 to 100 customers, it's vital to transition from founder-led sales to hiring your first sales team to prove the business can grow beyond the founder's efforts.