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“Every day, you all choose where to put your time. My goal is to give you the information to make the best decision.”
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
The company’s mission and founders attracted me, but most of all, it offered the chance to build again, and to scale the type of product that I thought could positively impact millions of businesses—and, in doing so, potentially create millions of jobs. This has been a motivation of mine since I first worked in politics, where I saw how economic op
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existential risks > core product (including which countries to invest in further) > new products.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
“People work for people if they have a purpose.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
“I’ve heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do, and thus we focus on nothing in particular.”
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
Leadership is disappointing people at a rate they can absorb.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
We had promoted a lot of people into management internally, which is an effective way to reward high performers and build company scaffolding, but we hadn’t invested enough in giving people the resources and the support they needed to be the most effective managers they could be.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
