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A week ago, someone might have told you they hate their Legos and want to get rid of them. But as soon as you hire someone else, they suddenly want to hang on to all of them.
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In a startup, if you want to grow as fast as your company, you have to give away your job every couple months.
At a scaling startup, giving away responsibility is the only way to move on to building bigger and better things.
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If you want your team or company to have certain values, to care about certain things, to act in certain ways, the time to do it is in these first 200 people — or the first 100 if possible. After that, a lot of other stuff takes hold.
Hiring is a network effect. The first 100 people...
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People who are successful at fast-growing companies:
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If you want to be one of these type of people who started at Facebook at 25 people and ended up running a huge department, you have to get really good at giving away your Legos. If you hold on to answering customer support queries yourself or writing all the blog posts yourself, you’re never ...
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This is where everything gets hard and you go from being a family to being a company.
This stage is about developing the right principles. Write down your mission, values and philosophies. Make it clear who you are and how you do things.
Talk about those thing...
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Whatever your company looks like at this stage is how it will be when you're older and bigger.
After 200 employees, any shift in culture requires a lot of work from all leaders within the company. However, when you see a trend over time that you don’t like, you need to aggressively ...
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Adding people doesn’t mean there’s less work for the people that are already there. It means that the entire company can do more.
This is an opportunity to find a new job — a bigger and better Lego tower to build. It's more about shifting t...
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When someone is really into you they can’t help but absorb all the things that might seem unimportant to you. They will start to remember your little things which you might have told them once.
For instance, when did you first dance, when was the first time you have won any competition, etc...
Most successful couples don't resolve all their problems. It comes back to respecting your partner, who will have different values and perspectives on some things. The key here is to abide by the difference, love them despite it, and when things get a little rough, forgive them for it.
Sometimes, what people really need is just the acceptance that comes with simply hearing them out and not making them wrong.
The key to remember is that as soon as you judge someone else, you lose all ability to influence them.
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