People ask me about processes all the time. Planning processes, performance review processes, OKRs, et cetera. I think it’s because I was once a COO and people have this vision of COOs as process fiends. People who make the trains run on time. People with lots of Gantt charts all around them. I have nothing against process.1 But I think startups... See more
As the company grew from baby to behemoth, the talents that allowed me to thrive in startup chaos became, well, liabilities in the structure of a corporation.
Here’s a big list of things that don’t seem to work, based on the last 20 years of running Tiny:
• Giving an advisor or advisory board free equity to advise a CEO without putting any real skin in the game and investing their own money (they usually go “thanks for the free equity” and occasionally respond to... See more