Superhuman

Another thing is a sense of urgency. The company is especially dedicated to moving very, very fast .

In the last few decades we have seen tremendous technical breakthroughs in the latencies and tooling possible to remove these constraints. Across the world, whether in productivity apps or in national governance, there will be a transition period as our norms and processes adapt to this tightening of the collaboration feedback loop. But perhaps I r... See more

As the former CEO of both Data Domain and ServiceNow, two successful tech companies in recent years, I am often confronted with questions: what did you guys do? What is the secret sauce? How did you do it? We never thought of ourselves as that different. We certainly didn’t think we had stumbled on a silver bullet. Did we just get incredibly lucky ... See more

The systems-level thing is that we actually have to be very fast about getting back to people. Being able to schedule an all-partner in 48 hours or less is actually really important. Being able to make an investment decision with a group process without short circuiting due diligence within 48 to 72 hours, just speed is important because speed kill... See more

This tempo and cadence is crucial for effective leadership. Even though you may not think that people want it, and even if people themselves think they don't want it, knowing that things need to be done by deadlines that are just on the cusp of the comfort zone forces real, tangible progress. If you think that a prototype might take a month, why no

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