A founder admits his competitive nature makes it hard to hire people better than him at certain things. Once he and his partner Becca built a leadership team, they stopped managing day-to-day operations and moved to strategy, letting leaders handle accountability and employee issues.
as we built out the team and as we started building out leadership, especially leadership was the most terrifying thing for me to hire. When I'm hiring leadership, I'm looking at a person and having to admit that this person's probably better than me at, at the aspect of the job they're gonna be doing. Which for somebody who's always been very competitive and self-sufficient, I don't like admitting when people are better than me. But having the leadership team in place is really what's been able to change how we, we being Becca and I, are able to work on the business instead of working in the business because now we have leaders to hold our employees accountable. Our employees now go to our leaders with their issues and problems, and it only comes to us if it needs to come to us.
