Mark Osborne left his corporate job at POPSUGAR to join a startup. He talks about the chaos of early-stage companies, doing everything from contracts to operations, and the pull between grinding through daily work and getting back to strategy.
When you start a company, you have to tear that all up and go back. So at POPSUGAR, I was at a point where like I was making a lot of decisions and I had very talented people, you know, acquired over time and at every department and other parts of the company that were really good and everybody knew what they were supposed to do. And then you go into a startup and it's utter chaos. People have 15 jobs and I'm doing— I mean, I'm an ex- corporate lawyer. So like, I'll do the contracts. I go like, I'm setting myself back 25 years doing that. Doesn't matter. Like, you just got to do it. And there's a part of that I really love. And there's a part of that I'm always struggling to then say, how do I get to this point where I was before, where I'm just thinking big thoughts and making decisions? I know every, you know, person who starts a company or leads a company has a similar feeling.
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