‪@CaseyGraham told me a CEO has 3 jobs:‬ ‪1. Vision: stay focused on it‬ ‪2. People: recruit and retain the best ‬ ‪3. Money: don’t run out‬ ‪My top focus this year as CEO is #2. Finding my 4 Generals.‬

A challenge I gave the team last week: 1. Share your top “figured it out” moment from the week 2. Everyone votes on their favorite 3. Most votes gets free round trip ticket to anywhere in the US Results have been 🤯

Are you a “year end review” blog post addict?‬ ‪Will DeShazo shares lessons, recommendations and highlights on his 28th birthday.‬ ‪📖 Best Book: “Never Split The Difference”‬ ‪🔮 Biggest Lesson: “Being intentionally dependent on others”‬

To get a meeting with someone: If you know them: 1. Create a cal invite with agenda in description and time of meeting 2. Send it to them. Don’t ask, just send. If you don’t know them: 1. Ask for the meeting 2. If no response, just send the cal invite

Each month I film a short video updating our team on: 1. What I’m excited about 2. What we’re working on 3.. A few fun behind-the-scenes things  I thought I’d share an audio only version here this month.

Weird thing happens each time I hire: Apps falls into 2 groups: 1. Pass 2. Maybe Then 1 comes along that blows me away and resets the bar. All the maybes turn to no’s, I get super excited & imagination for the role explodes.

‪2 months ago on a whim i invited 5 clients to come to dinner.‬ ‪1. Meeting in real life 👍🏻👍🏻‬ ‪2. Immediately evident they are **craving** community ‬ ‪3. Best product research and customer insight process ever ‬ ‪You should try it.‬

#1 Lesson From Reading 3 Books Written By The Basecamp Guys 1. These books are amazing talent recruiting rolls 2. I (think) I’m going to write a book 3. See an email I sent to our team today.

Had an idea today: “Whay if I did your list building and lead gen for you?”‬ ‪1. The service that inspired me
2. Breakdown of how it would work
3. My next steps to test it ‬ Nat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nateliason Nat's Sales Page: https://vidfru.it/2vyCyQB

‪Do you use Audible?‬ ‪Return books you never finished or didn’t like for credits. (h/t @robwalling)‬ ‪1. Account Details‬ ‪2. Payment ‬ ‪3. ‬