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“You can't really lean on your employees and say, Hey, I'm feeling really shitty as a founder today. Like everything is going to shit. Employees isn't going to take that well. So you lean on perhaps your investors and, but they're not really available. But what…”

“I think that like way too many founders apologize for how they want to run the company. I don't know why they do, but I think they apologize for how they want to run the company. They basically find some midpoint between how they want to run a company and how …”

“Lots of managers have great intentions to help their employees, but they get busy with their own lives, their own work, all the things they're focused on, and also their own career. The manager is often busy thinking about Their own needs. And so they just, th…”

“Part of Really respecting them is respecting that they can make the choices they want and they're grownups enough that they can deal with the consequences of those choices.”

“In many cases we had to engage the employees, right? No, we don't have cash. So what we did is that we diluted all shareholders in order to give employees way more equity, right? So five times more equity than they had before.”

“Ultimately if we've got to align the company's progress with their progress, because if they don't make progress, they will leave.”

“That employees hire companies more than companies hire employees. That's really the big thing.”