A company needs to hire one or two smarter people every year to stay sharp. New hires bring fresh perspectives that challenge assumptions and spot solutions the existing team misses, driving most of the company's real progress.
Every year we get 1 or 2 new cheerleaders that are smarter than us that join the group who see like something we don't. We wanted to have a great time, but it started meaning stuff to people. And these kind of big deal people would be like, this means everything to me. And we're like, whoa. And then they'd have ideas for us and they're way more sophisticated than we'd listen to them. So almost everything came from a friend or a member who had a better idea for us, who's like, no, you don't realize what you have, and kind of them motivating us. It's almost been driven by 1 or 2 people every year who come into our life who see something we don't. And then they're smart and then we take their suggestions and then they help us.