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At Teenage Engineering now we are about 60 and I understand that if you are involved in every little part of the business, it destroys you. So a few years ago I started to rebuild the organisation to essentially shoot me out of daily operations so now I can work on my own projects, and try to stay focused on the things I want to do.
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
The company started when founders Marshall Haas and Jon Wheatley became interested in applying the knowledge they’d acquired from working at tech firms to physical products. Prior to their partnership, Marshall was making money selling products that you couldn’t actually touch (software), and Jon was creating things that could be touched, but
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of their product team,
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What I’ve always found is this: give me a great product picker and a great architect, and I’ll give you a great product. But if I don’t have a great product manager, a great product originator—it used to be called a product picker—and I don’t have a great architect, I’m not going to get a great product.
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be nice but honest.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
In almost all circumstances I can think of, if not a member of the founding team, you want to say, "With the money I hope to raise from you, this is the person—here's his/her résumé—that we're going to bring on board to take care of the business marketing aspect of it." I've always had that in the startup companies I've been associated with.