[POV]: EOR gets more useful the bigger you get (not the opposite)

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A lot of founders talk about EOR (Employer of Record in case you’re questioning what it is) like it's something you use for your first 3 international hires and then graduate to setting up your own entities once you hit a certain size. Parenthetically, we're at about 200 people across 11 countries and we moved in the opposite direction, we actually consolidated more onto our EOR as we grew instead of spinning up local entities. The math never made sense the other way around. In fact, setting up a legal entity in a new country costs anywhere from 15k to $80K depending on jurisdiction, takes 2 to 6 months, and then you're on the hook for ongoing accounting, tax filings, local legal counsel, and a compliance surface area that scales with every country you add. At 3 countries that's maybe manageable, but at 11, it's a full-time operations team just to keep the lights on. Frankly, the companies I know that set up entities everywhere mostly did it because they assumed that's what serious...