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Blinkist Co-Founder & CEO Holger Seim on growing to 21M users, optimizing your information intake, geographic expansion, and experimenting with a 4-day workweek

Between Two COO's with Michael Koenig

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Is There a Better Way to Reduce the Workweek?

There has been a quick discussion. What does it mean to our additions? And I said, but everyone agreed, I didn't need to make a case there that this will only work if we keep our ambition high. There are always people, people who are more hungry, who work harder. So we can't just say, look, we'll take it easy. We'll lower ambition. The hypothesis is, and there's also a lot of, you know, research on it. It's not just we're not making that up,. But there is evidence that...We waste a lot of time in unnecessary meetings, unnecessary alignment loops sometimes, and just procrastinating.

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