On building of All Trades

Contrary to what most founders assume, having more resources doesn’t make things easier. Instead, it introduces the challenge of resource allocation — deciding where to invest time, money, and personnel for the best return. As your startup grows, and as you hire more employees, it means you’re going to have more mouths to feed and more people with... See more

Are You Prepared to Pay the Real Price of Startup Success?

“If done well, from a perspective of making everyone feel safe to share, to give themselves permission to fail or to not be perfect, virtual can potentially even nudge out face-to-face

Joshua Davies of Knowmium makes workshops feel like augmented reality with mmhmm

The internet and software is only accelerating this trend: as coordination costs get lower, it becomes easier and easier for companies to use outside services instead of building capabilities internally, concentrating knowledge in fewer and fewer organizations.

Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies

How do you preserve a source of truth when your team looks like teams of the future, connected with individuals who care but may be working in different systems and organizations to help you achieve your business goals? How can you assign an arbiter of truth?

“We are only leading when we are centered on making others better.”

Superhuman

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

Founders that step away grow their startup; find a team to trust and then share the power to increase your scaling velocity.

I aspire to live consciously, to follow my own inherent energy, to help other human beings, and to immerse myself fully in the present moment.

Superhuman

“The majority of companies don’t work in the way we do, which leads to fewer people with these kinds of skills. A conventional interview process, often modeled by large companies, doesn’t account for this. It’s challenging to assess in interviews if someone is truly a builder, has good taste and judgment, can take initiative, and approaches... See more

Lenny Rachitsky • Adding a work trial to your interview process

Know what you want to stand out for, how you’re different, what you can do that no one else can that can’t be captured by an algorithm or simple market signals, at least not yet.

There’s a market for almost everything.

The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.

Superhuman

If you remain flexible – even in the places where you really do think you got it right – and give yourself the chance to be proven incorrect, you’re setting yourself and your company up for success.

The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier

The future of work is flexible - teams need partners that are flexible and and allow for flexibility in their work structures.