Definition
The startup obsession with growing bigger, faster, and more unsustainably, as if a company were a goldfish and the market were an ocean. Everyone wants to scale, few know how, and most just end up spending more money to lose money at an impressive rate.
Example Usage
"We need to scale quickly, which means we're hiring 200 people before we have revenue, because nothing says fiscal responsibility like a burn rate that makes investors physically ill."
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See “Scale” in Corporate Speak, Gen-Z Slang, Pirate Speak, and more.
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