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Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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Taking Risks as a Startup

I think if you're a startup, your enemy is the status quo. When you don't take risks, when you minimize risk by doing nothing, like the best way to minimize risk is to do nothing. So I always encourage people to try to make mistakes of co-mission rather than omission. You know right away that it's happened. You can move really quickly and adapt and become better. If you make mistakes of omission, you're not observing. You're not learning. And you're maybe not even noticing opportunities slip by.

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