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Surround yourself with people who have been where you are going - Jack Newton, CEO at CLIO

22 May 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue (Jack Newton) advising founders and executives to "surround yourself with people that have been through the next stage of the journey." Emphasizes hiring senior team members who have direct experience scaling (examples: $200M→$500M ARR, 1,000→2,000 employees) to avoid "accumulating scar tissue" and to gain foresight on challenges of the next growth phase.

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I found one of the most useful things to do is finding ways to surround myself with people that have been through the next stage of the journey. And if they can just help you see around a corner and help. I like to use the phrase avoid accumulating scar tissue, you know, because they've already got the scar tissue accumulated that can be just so powerful. And there's a few ways to achieve that when, you know, when you're hiring people, especially in your senior team, if you can hire somebody that's been through the next stage of the scaling journey, if they've seen what scaling from 200 million of ARR to 500 million of ARR looks like, if they've seen what scaling from 1,000 to 2,000 people looks like, that's enormously powerful.