
Academic CEOs, Junior v. Senior Engineers, and High Growth Mistakes on Boss Talk #8
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How to Scale Through Human Beings
If you need to understand every little thing in the finance department and become a world class expert, then you're slowing everything down. That doesn't enable you to scale. You need to scale through human beings. And also, if you're hiring experts from outside who are not academics, and they don't speak your language, it's very hard to build trusts with them when you're questioning the stuff that they think is like kiddy stuff. There's a reason i'm a see a fo for forty years a so i think that's something a lot of ecademics might struggle with. Ats a recipe for, as you candely, have too much of the good here.
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