THE SUPERHUMAN PARADOX: WHEN GROWING SLOWER MEANS GROWING BIGGER

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

This piece uses Superhuman's measured onboarding approach—turning down easy revenue to focus on quality—to illustrate that chasing hypergrowth can backfire when it outpaces product readiness and operational capacity. Drawing from examples like WeWork and Hopin, it warns that scaling too fast can amplify existing flaws, strain teams, and undermine customer trust. Instead, a “Minimum Viable Growth” method seeks to sync customer acquisition, revenue targets, operations, and resource burn so the business remains stable as it expands.