My co-founder and I have been building our company together for several years. Not long ago, I learned that one of our investors had started to worry about our co-founder relationship. The reason was a group chat in which the two of us had gone quiet. The worry was understandable, but it was wrong. We…
Structured learning programs felt like real development. The team kept reaching for short courses and coaching instead, and they were mostly right. A note on the founder’s time horizon, and what AI changes about it.
We thought our onboarding developed people. Mostly we hired self-starters and paid for external coaches. A note on misattribution.