Growth does not retire the fear that built the company, it just enlarges what the fear is about.

observation — attributed to Brian Feit

Even with retainers and blue-chip clients, Feit describes BMF as an agency that always has to feed itself, and says the specific anxiety from the apartment years, knowing this month and next month are covered but not the third, has never fully left him. What changed is scale: more staff to pay, more revenue required to clear the same bar of safety. He treats this not as a failure to relax into success but as an accurate signal that the underlying business model never stops being one that must be re-earned.

For founders who assume the underlying anxiety of running the business should disappear at scale.

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