Wendy Kopp shares lessons from near-death experiences that shaped her organization's foundation. Growth brought new challenges but also attracted better resources and talent, letting the organization scale and tackle harder problems.
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I think the lessons that we learned the very hardest possible way, and my first book really documents this in kind of painful detail. But those lessons were so, you know, so fundamental because we learned them in the hardest possible way, I mean, through many near death experiences and whatnot, and really were the foundational lessons that inform the growth we then undertook. And growth brings many new challenges, but it also brings many advantages. And we were able to work the advantages to attract a totally different level of resources, a totally different level of talent, and that helped us undertake the kind of new learning curves that it would take to do what we're doing on a much bigger scale.