"Your job is to accomplish an inhuman amount of things and you are the constraint in your business when you start it's ultimately like whatever you get done gets done," she says. "The more you can abstract away from your day-to-day so you can focus on the things only you can do, the more leverage and more success you'll have" She adds that a world-class delegator can find places almost everywhere now there might be some things like if you're building a technical product from scratch that's probably not going to be as helpful but in all other domains yeah assistant can help create more time for you."
Today we chat with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset. We cover a ton of ground - starting with the Sunday idea club that led to Thumbtack, how to scale a marketplace, and how to choose ideas you'd happily spent a decade on. Next, we jump into the science of delegation - the idea at the core of Athena. Jonathan talks through how to delegate to an EA, when to start with one, a system of delegation that creates asymmetric upside and what type of founders should consider it.