i would focus on how it is that we can make each other better. A general pattern to succeeding at scale is making accurate decisions faster than your competitors. To do this, you need to hire the right people and cultivate environment that maximizes their ability to perform. All start up go through a valley of the shadow. The company faces an existential threat. It will live or die on how the emergency plays out. And one of the things i'll do is give them a speech that sounds something like this, if start ups were easy, everyone would do it. They're hard, but that hardness is the thing that gives you the chance to change the world.
To survive your entrepreneurial journey, you have to learn to recharge. Knowing when to turn the lights out may be the only way to keep the lights on. Few know this better than Arianna Huffington, who dramatically scaled the Huffington Post – and then experienced profound physical burnout. Her venture, Thrive Global, scales the idea of balance across an organization. With cameo appearances from Chris Yeh (co-author, Blitzscaling) and Dr. Matt Walker (author of Why We Sleep).
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