High Growth, Low Burnout: Blueprint for Sustainable Startup Scale
Scaling a startup quickly usually comes with a cost: exhausted teams, weakened culture, and founder burnout. It doesn't have to be a tradeoff between growth and the health of the people who make the company run.
Scaling Longevity in Your Startup is a moderated panel for founders, CTOs, and team leads on how to grow from 0 to 75+ employees while keeping the stamina to keep going. Michael Hess (CTO, Outset AI, YC S23) and Quentin Rousseau (CTO, Rootly AI, YC S21) share what it took to scale their teams. Spencer Tate, founder and CEO of Shifu Health and former Division 1 cross-country athlete, joins them to discuss a care model that keeps employees at fast-scaling startups ready to perform. Moderated by Dr. Rachit Chawla, a Bay Area pediatrician who brings a clinical perspective on sustained performance.
Key Takeaways
Engineering practices that protect people: designing on call, incident load, and meeting culture to maintain velocity without wearing down the team.
Burnout early warning systems: clinical and operational indicators to spot overload before it becomes attrition.
A care model for scaling teams: what proactive, accountable health support looks like for employees at fast-growing companies.
Who Should Attend
Early-stage founders, co-founders, COOs, VPs of Engineering, and People Ops leaders looking to engineer high performance while preserving company health and retention.
Secure your spot to walk away with a ready-to-implement operational toolkit designed to protect your team’s stamina while hitting your next milestone.
About Rootly AI
Rootly AI is the AI-native on-call and incident response platform that provides proactive support to help Site Reliability Engineers resolve incidents faster, improve system resilience, and streamline on-call operations. It’s your always-on SRE copilot that automates root cause analysis and identifies patterns that drive continuous improvement—trusted by hundreds of companies like LinkedIn, NVIDIA, Replit, Elastic, Canva, Clay, Tripadvisor, and Shell.