Tobi Lütke: Failing to actively remove processes gums up company systems
Tobi L–tke · Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 3, 2023 · at 23:12
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke explains organizational design on 20VC, arguing that companies naturally accumulate complexity because adding is easier than subtracting.
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“It's much easier to add something to a company than it is to remove something from a company. And so if you can only add, never remove, you're gumming up the system after a while.”
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