There are sharper limits than you’d expect on how fast companies can grow. (Relevant: Ben & Jerry’s vs Amazon: fast land grabs kill corporate culture, among other things; also that Robin Hanson(?) post I can’t find about companies wanting to be bigger than they should.) You can borrow money, hiring is a bit harder, and assimilating new hires into your company just has to be slow, as well as restructuring management when everything gets bigger and you do more in parallel.
In this case, they could simply borrow more money.
There are sharper limits than you’d expect on how fast companies can grow. (Relevant: Ben & Jerry’s vs Amazon: fast land grabs kill corporate culture, among other things; also that Robin Hanson(?) post I can’t find about companies wanting to be bigger than they should.) You can borrow money, hiring is a bit harder, and assimilating new hires into your company just has to be slow, as well as restructuring management when everything gets bigger and you do more in parallel.