Founders & First Hires

2 essays

2024.07.16

The Apprentice Problem

The Future of Work Founders & First Hires

Machines are getting good at the junior work — and the junior work is exactly how we used to grow seniors. If we automate the bottom of the staircase, we have to decide how anyone climbs.

2023.02.21

Small Teams Move Like Water

Startups Founders & First Hires

A team's speed is set not by how good its people are but by how few of them have to agree before something ships. Most companies optimize the wrong variable.