How to Scale Yourself Down

Livingston: Who did you learn things from at Google? Did you have mentors? Buchheit: I didn't know anything about building these large systems before working at Google. So I'd look at how different parts of Google work and sort of say, "Does that apply to us? Can we reuse that technique?"—since there was already a successful model of how

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**how DO you…capitalize on this transition to right-size your internal ops?** Simply – reflect and record. Why This Works

While all too easy to turn on scramble mode, putting up a new job posting, and reassigning existing responsibilities, this transitory state provides an ideal opportunity to assess team priorities, output, dynamics, and experienc

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If the CEO disconnects from the product, that’s usually bad. And that is something that you see happen to varying degrees as a company scales. There are a lot of CEOs that say, “Well, I want to just go think about strategy all the time. I’m really tired of managing people.” Because managing people is hard. And so a lot of CEOs have tried a structur

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