A founder built his company by handling sales himself, then hired a Director of Operations, then a COO to take over day-to-day work. Now he's looking for a growth executive, knowing it will push profit margins below 10% but scale the business faster than he could alone.
'Cause I'm more sales-oriented anyway. I'm more of a promoter, if you haven't guessed. The obvious leadership parts of my leadership team I needed to build out first were operations. I got my director of operations. Then I kind of hired some pretty good salespeople along the ways and we grew in fits and starts. Then I decided like, I'm gonna hire a COO who actually takes full ownership. Like I don't even have to be on ever operationally. And now we're looking for that same level of person to grow the business. And you know what? It's a big swing for us because if we find that growth person, our profitability is going to go down to like really low, like under 10%.
