Britt Gage
@brittfgage
Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.
Britt Gage
weofalltrades.com
You can’t be a hoarder of power within an organization. Once you get to a point where you feel like something is ready for lots of scale, get comfortable with letting it go so you can move on to the next building challenge.
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
On building of All Trades and Startup Advice
Founders that step away grow their startup; find a team to trust and then share the power to increase your scaling velocity.
Often, a good impression is a byproduct of deep engagement in a conversation, a desire to learn, or thoughtful work, as opposed to something you aim at directly.
The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review
I am ambitious. But in almost every other respect,
I am the opposite of the archetypal Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
I am allergic to bullshit, risk averse, introspective, have no interest in “going big or going home”
I am the opposite of the archetypal Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
I am allergic to bullshit, risk averse, introspective, have no interest in “going big or going home”
Superhuman
“The beginner chases the right answers.
The master chases the right questions.”
The master chases the right questions.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want
Generalists are masters in asking the right questions.
- Level one: Nascent product-market fit. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company. The goal in this stage is to find three to five customers with a problem worth solving, engage with them, deliver a solution, and validate that solution. [examples: Vanta, L
Lenny Rachitsky • A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
You left out the all caps part
seths.blog
If you see a set of rules that don’t make sense, that are overly stern, that seemed designed to be offputting instead of helpful, it’s possible that the poster is leaving part of the memo unsaid:
THIS IS MUCH HARDER THAN WE THOUGHT, AND WELL, MAYBE IF WE MAKE A LOT OF RULES, PEOPLE WILL LEAVE US ALONE.
In practice, that meant permission to stop , permission to play ( including to do work that still felt truly fun), and permission to go internal (get back in touch with her internal compass, goals, and sense of self). She was still working, she was just being a whole lot more mindful about where she was directing her energy.
Anne Helen Petersen • The Right Kind of Busy
Humans In The Loop and Internal Product Management
real self care
How to build a system of information-gathering to get an ROI on time spent
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