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The Get-Big-Quick Fallacy

Harvard Business Review

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. If you are inside a big company, profit-draining ventures are typically early sacrifices in corporate cost-cutting exercises. Growth is great, but profits are more convincing proof of long-term viability.