Speaker (Richard Canfield) reflects on past mistakes of prioritizing rapid business growth at the expense of personal life. He argues for slowing growth and focusing on building the right team and leverage so the business serves life (not vice versa). The core claim: prioritize people and sustainable growth over hacking rapid scale.
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The idea of we don't have to be the one who is doing the hammering. We don't have to be the one grinding for 12 hours a day to drive this business forward. It really is about the right people around us. It really is about leverage. This idea that business is meant to exist to make our lives better. And we're not meant to exist to just build this business or just give everything to it and drop everything else in our life. It should be our lives first and then the business. Whereas I've made the mistake of trying to grow too fast, too quickly, trying to grow too big, too fast, I should say, and just going through the whole process of just throwing everything at the business and still not getting it too kind of where it needs to be. So I think a lot of my thinking around business recently has come back to the idea of, well, why don't we just slow down our growth? And obviously growth is great, but why don't we do it with the right people? Why don't we focus on team instead of just this idea of let's go and grow, hack something.