Brie Wolfson
@briewolfson
mostly researching, thinking, and writing about company culture via The Kool-Aid Factory and Founder Fodder (newsletter). Used to Stripe (Stripe Press, BizOps) and Figma (Figma for Education).
Brie Wolfson
Instead of protecting your teams from failure, prepare them for it.
Andrew Bosworth • Antifragile
Even if you want to be big someday, remember that you never need to act like a big boring company.
Derek Sivers • Little things make all the difference | Derek Sivers
I am a giant advocate for technical founders running their own companies, but one consistent way that technical founders deeply harm their businesses is by screwing up the budgeting process. Yes, the budgeting process. How ridiculous is that?
Ben Horowitz • How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process
Most hacker-founders would like to spend all their time programming. You won't get to, unless you fail. Which can be transformed into: If you spend all your time programming, you will fail.
Paul Graham • What Startups Are Really Like
We first wrote these “10 things” when Google was just a few years old. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds true. We hope it does—and you can hold us to that.