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As leaders, we must move from being the hero to being the architect of environments where others can excel.
Memo to CTOs: Don’t build the product
What would’ve happened if you hadn’t given the brief to a load of engineering firms who immediately focused on speed, time, distance, capacity? What if you’d given the brief to Disney instead?
decision making at amazon
“Being a CEO is a highly confrontational role... Confrontation is about confronting issues and situations that are either not good enough or could be better,”
ChatGPT
fundraising ask
“ One of the biggest inflection points in growth for Airtable was adding templates. It kicked off the SEO flywheel and ended up accounting for as much as a third of total site traffic at its peak. One of the most interesting elements of this was that templates were seeded with a lot of the content made by creators in the community. This is... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Startups Like Figma, Facebook, and Airbnb Found Sudden Growth Inflections
“If you look at how almost every successful company was built, it’s heroic effort. And there’s no substitute for that heroic effort in the beginning.”