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Many software companies are started opportunistically, so their product roadmaps are evolutionary. But the CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad built Rippling through intelligent design. Each product has a whitepaper, each funding round has a written memo. Releasing these memos publicly means Rippling is unafraid of competition: if you give your produc... See more
John Luttig • Rippling and the Return of Ambition
To launch these big new businesses, the company’s managers took rigorously logical steps. They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP’s existing business. However, they only looked at opportunities that were already billion dollar markets. Barnholt recalls, “Around that time, people
... See morePeter Sims • Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
As you scale, you realize, “Huh, I really need more of these.” And the danger is getting too process-y instead of outlining the objectives so people understand, “Okay, we’re doing this for this reason.” It’s almost like you want to provide more context versus trying to exert more control. Because maybe in a very autocratic, hierarchical, bureaucrat
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
And this goes back to the original point which was that these software markets are actually much larger than anybody assumed, and so the idea that you're going to run into competitors from day one is probably not accurate. What you're probably going to run into is objections to your own system because the system itself is incomplete and doesn't add... See more