{"id":909252,"date":"2026-05-30T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/why-i-became-the-bottleneck-in-my-own-company-and-what-i-had-to-change-to-finally-scale\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:12:37","slug":"why-i-became-the-bottleneck-in-my-own-company-and-what-i-had-to-change-to-finally-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/why-i-became-the-bottleneck-in-my-own-company-and-what-i-had-to-change-to-finally-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Became the Bottleneck in My Own Company \u2014 and What I Had to Change to Finally Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my first tech company, I stayed too deep in execution for too long \u2014 still closing deals, managing sales and operating in the weeds even as the business scaled \u2014 until I realized the very habits that built early success were the same ones limiting its long-term growth&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/leadership\/why-i-became-the-bottleneck-in-my-own-company-and-what\/503148\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Brett Sutherlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first tech company, I stayed too deep in execution for too long \u2014 still closing deals, managing sales and operating in the weeds even as the business scaled \u2014 until I realized the very habits that built early success were the same ones limiting its long-term growth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1624,127028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-became","category-bottleneck"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}