The one thing worth micromanaging

10 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The one thing worth micromanaging" (created 2025-06-10T20:30:13+00:00). The excerpt is a single-speaker segment in which the speaker paraphrases Steve Jobs to argue that founders should relentlessly focus on hiring — raising the bar on talent and ruthlessly choosing who to admit. The speaker emphasizes micromanaging executive hiring and acquiring top engineers because exceptional hires can produce outsized impact (mentions examples like Cursor).

The one thing that's worth micromanaging on forever. I listened to this, I am paraphrasing from Steve Jobs. The one thing the founder has full control over is continuing to raise the bar on talent and ruthlessly deciding who to let in. Because one really good engineer is not 10x. If we're talking 50x and 100x, maybe even 1,000x now with things like Cursor, right? For example, like your executive team, for example, that's the thing that's worth micromanaging on and making sure you got the best of the best, right? Because then you don't have to worry about all these things. Like you're only checking in on the things that maybe you can drive the most impact on.