The Startup Mindset

When we were a company of 10, right, the culture was different. It was a lot more agile. And the way we were just doing things, there was no org chart, there was no handbook, there was no process. We're just doing things as a team. There was one credit card we were literally using as a team. Okay, you need to order that. Go for it. And as the company has changed and grown, all those processes have changed because they were not scalable anymore. And I think one of my important roles as a CEO is to reiterate to my team that change is okay, and change is actually not only okay, but highly desired. Because, you know, change is difficult, right? Like, I mean, if you're used to a certain, certain way, then all of a sudden you know, everything's changing. Then you're kind of panicking of what happened. And so I try to infuse that to the team, you know, every two weeks, every all hands talking about how this did change. We used to do it that way, we're doing it this way, but that's totally fine. This is how it's supposed to be. And I think if you're trying to join a startup, you got to enter the environment knowing that everything's going to change very soon. And so I've told people if something is not working today, it will most likely be fixed three months from now. So let's just work it out, let's just get together, talk about it. Because there are a bunch of stuff that's not working right. I mean, it's growing pains of building a company that's growing really fast. And so if you're not okay with change, it's going to be difficult. And so we certainly look into that when we're hiring new people.