I just finished reading an AWESOME blog post from our friends over at Wistia on the struggles they have had as they have grown, and how they took on $17M in debt to pay off investors and employees to focus on building the company THEY want.
It was inspirational. And had great lessons we can learn from. Worth checking out at https://wistia.com/learn/culture/taking-on-debt-to-grow-our-own-way.