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Tobi Lütke: CEO and Founder, Shopify

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Headcount Allocation Is a Zero Sum Problem

Head count allocation is mostly a zero sum problem, but there ways to make it slightly non zero in that I find oftentimes people haven't really asked themselves when they want another person on their team. And you know, sometimes there's like a bunch of shadow reasons for adding people. It's like, oh, well, it's a score that I'm keeping, you know, how influential I am as a manager or like I need to collect these many people tokens before I could advance to the next level or in and I'm not even making fun of it.

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