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#040 Customer-Driven Products: How Brett Kopf built “Slack for Schools” and launched Omella

Smart Friends

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Leveraging the Best People to Build a Bigger Company

Omela has a small team of ten right now, but i don't think that more people equates to higher productivity or revenue or engagement. It's like if you hire the people who are really, really good and get out of their way, then like they will somehow solve the problem. They're like the engine that powers this bigger engine of this company. Unless this machine is just ripping, which work would not throw yo ye o as we cannot wind down a little bit. That's where i see it. Hopefully we won't have hundreds of employees.

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