The best thing you can do as a CEO is be a micromanager. I actually believe that. When you are such a small company, usually you don't quite yet have product market fit. That is when you should really start having kind of a couple of managers. We hired our first manager at Duolingo seven years ago and she's still with us. She helped us from her eyes where I learned how to manage people better.

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