How to Delegate to a Startup

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project oriented delegation can be 10 times more powerful than delegating by task. The best delegators are always delegating with this process orientation in mind so that they're not just delegating a task or a project but they're delegating their preferences and their way of thinking. clairvoyant delegation is when you and your EA's kind of missions are so in alignment and you're able to focus on just the things that you uniquely are positioned as a human to do, he says.

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.