Hiring and building fast can lead to huge costs, loads of bugs and performance issues

Hiring and building slow leads to multiple rounds of performance tuning early on, which can also lead to lower costs, and gives you a chance to focus on improving the product by focusing on your user experience because you're not in panic mode to raise funds, overhire and conquer the world

We could have many more good software products if companies were focused on long term quality and didn't obsess over growth