startup mentality
Velocity
The first thing to say is this: I have not built Flexport for speed. I’ve built it for velocity . That’s an important distinction. In physics, velocity has a vector. Speed only makes sense if you’re pointed in the right direction. To generate velocity, you need to make sure that you have people who are super-aligned both in the short and l... See more
The first thing to say is this: I have not built Flexport for speed. I’ve built it for velocity . That’s an important distinction. In physics, velocity has a vector. Speed only makes sense if you’re pointed in the right direction. To generate velocity, you need to make sure that you have people who are super-aligned both in the short and l... See more
“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth”

Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
What “different future” are we building?
Startups don’t outthink their competitors; they outexecute them. The best startups have founders who stay in sync, but work independently. And there’s a single magic ingredient that makes this work: trust.
Dan Shapiro • Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook

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