Growing Startups Must Eliminate Committees to Maintain Decision Speed
Will Ahmed · 20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making · Jan 5, 2022 · at 22:26
Will Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Whoop, a health and fitness wearable company. He shares his operational strategy on maintaining execution velocity as the organization expands.
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“In general, I try to cut as much slack out of processes as possible. I think that as you grow and as you have more people in an organization, there's sort of this urge to focus Form more committees and form more meetings. And I think the more you can just cut away at that and get people comfortable with the fact that, hey, you're going to be making decisions. You do not need everyone's bind. You got to move fast.”
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