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Rob Sadow: Co-founder functional segmentation is essential early on
“I think it's incredibly important. I think that there are founders who believe when it's really early stage that that feels overly bureaucratic, but it actually festers. Over time, if you don't fix it, role clarity is not just important for the two of you or t…”
Sadow: Optimize Decisions by Multiplying Speed by Accuracy Rate
“The goal is to make decisions quickly and try and maximize for lack of better description, the product of how fast am I making decisions times how often am I right?”
Rob Sadow: Implicit trust is the most vital co-founder quality
“The thing that is most important as a founder finding another founder as a co-founder is you have to deeply implicitly trust that that person is on your team because building companies is hard and you have great days and you have tough days and you go through …”
Rob Sadow: Hiding company challenges from board members breeds distrust
“The more you try and pull the wool over the eyes of your board members, not let them like into what's actually happening, that's actually what breeds distrust and pain and creates really difficult board conversations.”
Rob Sadow: Founder-board trust requires shared vision before anything else
“If you don't see the world the same way, you don't see the future of the company the same way, there's no real way to build trust between the board and the founders, and that's a conversation that has to happen before any other, in my opinion.”
Sadow: Company values only take hold when embedded in every key process
“And frankly, that's how I think all good values actually take hold in a company is they actually take hold in every piece of what you do in every key process.”
Sadow: A CEO's job is aligning employee goals with company opportunities
“Because my job as a founder, and I think my job as a CEO over time, is to make sure that for as close to a hundred percent of the team as possible, their career goals, their professional development objectives over the next six months, 12 months, 24 months, fi…”