Scaling Comes with Chaos

My wife and I were watching YouTube when a billionaire was answering some questions. One of the titles he made a statement on was “Scaling Comes with Chaos,” and it triggered so many memories for me.

I usually don’t like to start a blog with a prejudice, but here it is: sometimes I hate the word “scaling.” Today’s landscape on social media has everyone talking about scale, scale, scale. There’s nothing inherently wrong with scaling, but to properly scale, the foundation matters. If you follow my blogs, you know this is something I preach about.

I’ll never forget when we first started scaling with Unapologetic®️. I was excited. I mean, real excited, like a kid in a candy store. But I quickly realized that scaling came with its own set of problems. One was having the cash flow to keep up with the inventory. And the second was the influx of shipping, which brought its own cash flow issues.

I wouldn’t admit this at the time, but it was chaos. If you asked my wife back then, she’d straight up tell you it was chaos. There were times when we were ready to ship, but there weren’t any shirts in the right sizes on the shelf. Some days, we had to hold onto packages because there wasn’t enough money to ship the ones we had already prepared. Let me tell you, this was frustrating beyond words.

My suggestion? Be slow. Create a cash flow reserve so that when it’s time to scale up, although it will come with its own set of problems, you’ll have the money on hand to get the inventory you need, ship everything, and bring in extra staff if needed.

Ultimately, we want to get to the point where we do scale our business, but start preparing now.

God Bless the Entrepreneur.