I've worked for so many companies that did this. Great at the startup phase, but no idea how to run things at the next level so they just flounder and flop around for years never knowing why nothing works the way it should. It's different skill sets. But I'm also for more small companies and fewer behemoths. We need that diversity and innovation. One of the reasons I was sad to see Bandbox go belly up.
Yes totally. It’s one reason why the clubs that come from huge labels have a different feeling and are often more just a different store front for variants than anything else.
What I would say is that even still they are not an enormous company, it’s just that they hit the zeitgeist by having the right product at the right time, blew up quicker than they were ready for but then just never addressed that. They don’t need to aim for eternal growth, that’s neither healthy or realistic, but they do need to expand to service the growth they had 6 years ago.