Paige Finn Doherty on why growth kills quality: you hire fast, decisions get generic, and leaders accept mediocrity. As an investor, she learns from founders solving big problems instead.
As the company got bigger, I would get frustrated that naturally when something gets bigger, there's some, it sort of gets diluted. Mm-hmm. Um, I think it's inevitable that you, you make, you have to hire people faster. You have to make less sort of nuanced and specific decisions. And like the thing takes on a life of its own in a way where whenever, I would, I, I just felt that there was, I was just frustrated with areas where I felt that I had to accept mediocrity. Mm-hmm. And then as an investor, the time that I spent, I felt I always, I was getting time with these just like fascinating, really interesting people solving these big challenges. And the learning curve was always super steep.
Paige of Behind Genius driving an AI electric train in St. Louis (Intramotev Visit)
