Founders must personally build operating systems for novel businesses
David Heacock · David Heacock: Building Filterbuy · Feb 18, 2025 · at 16:28
David Heacock, founder and CEO of Filterbuy, discusses overcoming the operational bottlenecks of early-stage scaling with Shane Parrish.
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“You as an entrepreneur have to really understand your business if you want to be able to scale and do anything big. And it's almost impossible, in my opinion, especially when you're smaller, to hire somebody that That's going to build the systems that you need to really do something big, and you kind of have to do it yourself, and at least that has been my experience, and, you know, I think that it sounds great to say, hey, I'm just going to go and hire somebody to do all of these things, but the reality is that if you really want to do something big, and if you want to do something different that there's not an established playbook for, which is what we have done, then it's, Your, it's your responsibility as the entrepreneur to go and figure all of that out”
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