Lessons from a 5x CTO: How to Retain Talent and Run Skip Level 1:1s Through Rapid Growth (with Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer at CircleCI)
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Is There a Difference Between a Startup and a High Level Position?
As you go through your career, like you learn lessons, you also end up managing more senior people under you who themselves are even more capable of taking fairly nebulous context or high level perspectives and making great decisions about what to do. I'd say there's a lot of Dunbar influence in there,. Like everyone talks about 150 as this really important Dunbar number, but you actually describe different levels where you go from sort of your really close personal relationships to like up to, I can remember it. This number of people's names. One big transition point is we feel too big to be a single team. Maybe you need a light, you know, like Trello or a pivotal track
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