The Rule of 3: Common Breaking Points as Startups Scale

As a company grows, processes break. Shikhar Ghosh and Adam Enbar, co-founder and CEO of Flatiron School, identify the "Rule of 3." Ghosh observes that a pattern of straining and breaking repeats as a company scales its number of employees in multiples of three. Enbar confirms, "at three, at nine, at 27, at 81, at 270, everything breaks. Just roughly, in multiples of three, the structure of things change, and you can't do the same things"