Mark Forchette advises founders to place the right people in the right roles across your team, board, investors, advisors, and personal life. Getting these seats filled correctly determines whether your company succeeds or fails.
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Put the right people in the right seats. Now, this is kind of my last lesson, and I kind of did these a little bit in chronological order, but this is probably the single most important thing for you to think about as you launch in your career, making sure the right people are in the right seats. Now, people at OptiMedica hear me say a lot, weapons don't win battles, people do. If you don't have the right people in the right seat, you have to correct it. Everybody on the team probably knows that they're not the right person in the right seat. And you know what? It goes further than you might naturally think. You know, it's natural when people hear this statement to think, oh, I need to make sure the people that work for me are the right people. But you know what? It goes way beyond that. You need to make sure you have the right seat in your board. You need to make sure you have the right investors. You need to make sure you have the right team, you have the right advisors. You need to make sure that your friends share your values and that you guys are good for each other. And you need to make the right decisions in your personal life. You know, one of the most important decisions I ever made in my life was my, my wife and the spouse that I have. And she's incredibly supportive for me. That's an important decision and that's another way of thinking about having the right people in the right seat.