“Feed the Leaders, starve the Followers” strategy that has worked for Mark Maloney - BoneChat short
In this short monologue, Mark Maloney recounts a resource‑allocation philosophy he adopted from his military experience and has applied to scaling startups such as Orthologic. He explains that he directs roughly 80 % of a company’s resources toward the top 20 % of performers—those he calls the “leaders”—while deliberately limiting support for the remaining 80 % of employees, whom he refers to as “followers.” The mantra “feed the leaders, starve the followers” is presented as a hard‑line approach intended to force under‑performers to either improve dramatically or exit, and Maloney credits this strategy with growing Orthologic from $2 M to $30 M and achieving similar results at other ventures.
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