Inside Canva: Coaches Not Managers, Giving Away Your Legos, and Running Profitably | Cameron Adams (Co-Founder And…
So, while their mission was, and still is, “to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives” by building LEGO-style software — they focused on a different approach to getting there.
Jaryd Hermann • How Notion Grows
Outsource everything. It’s all you, every day. For now. Then it’s software. Eventually you and your army of robots will be at maximum capacity and you’ll need help. But before you hire your first full-time employee, use freelancers. I’m not talking about exploiting good, hardworking people by paying them less than they deserve. I mean hiring future... See more
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
Rishi Mandal: “Efficiency, and the discipline to keep our team and footprint small, has allowed us to do something that I think category-creating consumer businesses have to be able to do, which is to be misunderstood for a number of years. When we started Future, we felt that the broader world (consumers, investors, our friends, the press) may not... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How to win in consumer subscription
Google was a company built on the values of its founders, who harbored ambitions to build a powerful corporation that would impact the entire world, at the same time loathing the bureaucracy and commitments that running such a company would entail.