# Maintain growth-mode spending versus wartime austerity.

**Practitioner:** Eoghan McCabe
**Source:** Lenny's Podcast — Eoghan McCabe episode
**Timestamp:** 26:31
**Move:** 6 of 8

## The tension

Maintain growth-mode spending versus wartime austerity.

## Where they landed

Extreme wartime austerity — even the symbolic luxuries.

## What they accepted to lose

Projects canceled. Office buildout halted. Internal morale cost.

## Verbatim

> I cut a lot of costs aggressively. Canned a bunch of different projects. We had this big glorious office we were about to fit out and I'm like, we're about to hit negative growth territory, stop it.

— Eoghan McCabe, Lenny's Podcast, 26:31

## Load-bearing phrase

*got really frugal in ways I never thought I would*

## What it pushes back against

The late-stage-SaaS norm of maintaining growth-era spending.

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**Source attribution:** This call is drawn from Lenny Rachitsky's public podcast archive at [LennysData.com](https://lennysdata.com), released April 2026 with an explicit invitation to builders.

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