Green: Leaders should interview every employee annually to identify and eliminate operational failures
Mitchell Green · Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 26, 2025 · at 1:19:47
Mitchell Green, founder of Lead Edge Capital, shares a core management practice he learned from the founder of Accel-KKR.
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“You should interview all your employees. From admin to your other partners, and basically ask them for feedback. Just be like, hey, if you were running the place, what would you do differently? You know, like, tell me everything you do in your job, green, red, or yellow. And so it's like, okay, well, I actually don't care what you do green. I care what you do red, because I want to get rid of those things.”
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