---
id: "quote-loss-of-control"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶1"]
tags: ["founders", "scaling"]
related: ["claim-decision-making-fractures"]
speaker: "Tatiana Sandino"
speakers: ["Tatiana Sandino"]
sources: ["tail1"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail1"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-tail-105-fast-growing-better-decisions"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/how-fast-growing-companies-can-make-better-decisions"
sourceTitle: "How Fast-Growing Companies Can Make Better Decisions"
---
# The moment founders lose control

> "There's often a moment when founders of fast-growth ventures realize they have lost control of the decisions being made around them. Perhaps a pile of money goes missing, they hear an important customer complaint three weeks late, or a well-intentioned manager without guidance makes a hire that doesn't fit."
> — [[entity-tatiana-sandino|Tatiana Sandino]]

Highlights the inevitable breaking point in fast-growing ventures where informal management fails — the concrete opening symptom of [[claim-decision-making-fractures]].