Startup

For the past few weeks, I’ve been listening to startup founders about how they scaled their companies while preserving their core values at the same time. As such, I will be summarizing some of the recurring elements that stood out to me. One thing that really surprised me is that really large companies are not run as efficiently as you think. A lot of times, bureaucracy gets piled up that causes employees to lose the initial spark they had when they joined the company....

“CEO/founders should interview every candidate until the company is at least 500 employees.” — Keith Rabois Good news. Your startup has gained some kind of traction and has finally achieved some sort of product-market-fit. You, the founder, are assuming the roles of all the C-suite executives. You are making sales calls, you are having meetings every other day, you are managing the back-end server of your startup and you have no sleep....

“If you think of all the things that make for good TV, do none of them. Focus on the things that make for boring TV — sitting and coding, talking with customers, making sales calls.” — Sam Altman The family stage of startups as defined by Reid Hoffman is the stage where a startup has assembled its founding team and is ready to take on the world with their minimum viable product....