Rathmann: High-performing startup teams must operate between 80% and 130% capacity
Kurt Rathmann · 20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor · Jan 10, 2020 · at 10:55
Kurt Rathmann, founder and CEO of ScaleFactor, shares his management philosophy on workload allocation and team capacity while scaling VC-backed startups.
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“A great team, I have a saying and a philosophy that the great team is always throttled at between 80 to 130%. You can't run at 130% forever because you really start to break things. You can't run at 80% forever because then you become complacent and you might lose some speed of play.”
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