Cut Overhead 70%, Scale Past $5M.

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# The Overhead Trap: Why Traditional Scaling Is Broken You're at $500K in revenue. Maybe $1M. The orders are coming in faster than you can fulfill them, and every instinct—every business book you've read, every advisor you've consulted—says the same thing: *hire more people.* So you do. You hire a project manager. Then a customer support rep. Then an operations lead. And suddenly, you're not doing the work anymore—you're managing the people who do the work. You're in meetings about meetings. Your payroll is eating 40% of revenue, and somehow, the company feels *slower* than when it was just you and a laptop. This is the overhead trap.