Molly Graham

12 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2024 by Cameron Adams · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jun 2, 2024 positive
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Co-founder Cameron Adams personally teaches 'giving away Legos' at Canva onboarding
“Molly wrote a great article which I actually refer everyone who joins Canva to in, ah, the cultural onboarding session which I give them. So I run everyone through the culture at Canva and what they conspect over the next few years as they work here. And one o…”
Cameron Adams Jun 2, 2024 ▶ 17:00 Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams
Jan 4, 2026
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Graham: Facebook operated with only three top-level goals for five years
“Facebook basically had three goals for the entire time I was there. It was five years and we did, you know, six month goal setting. I think we did annual goal setting that ended up getting reset every six months, but whatever. So the three goals were this, the…”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 49:12 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 positive
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Molly Graham only takes jobs she is highly unqualified for
“I only like doing jobs that I'm highly unqualified for. I like being on learning curves so steep that I'm scared I'm gonna fall off.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 7:50 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 negative
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Graham: A 'LinkedIn crush' means wanting the announcement, not the job
“I call it a LinkedIn crush where you're like really excited to post the job on LinkedIn, but you're deeply unexcited about doing the job.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 1:24:35 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026
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Graham: If goal setting is not painful, you are not prioritizing enough
“If your goal setting process is not painful, then you're not prioritizing heavily enough.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 52:04 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026
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Molly Graham gave away her job every three weeks at Facebook
“At Facebook, I got to a place where I was literally giving away my job every three weeks. I was constantly rehiring myself essentially because you have to sort of grow as fast as your company is growing. If you really want to take advantage Of the opportunity …”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 16:19 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 negative
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Graham: Annual headcount growth over 100% causes severe organizational pain
“Growing more than 100% every year is a bad idea. A hundred percent, the happiest growth rate is 50%. A hundred percent is manageable. Anything more than doubling and you are signing yourself up for a world of pain.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 1:18:08 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 positive
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Graham: Disagreeing coworkers should immediately escalate together to leadership
“As soon as you are stuck, escalate. Go together. Go make your case to whoever it is. Go together up. That is unlocking, right? It's saving you a whole bunch of time.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 1:17:00 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 neutral
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Graham: 80% of company culture is defined by founder personality
“80% of the culture of a company is literally defined by the personality of the founder.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 1:11:57 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 negative
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Graham: Every goal must have exactly one single non-CEO owner
“Two people owning a goal is no one owning a goal. One person owns the goal. Who is it? It's not you as the CEO. It's someone that works for you.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 52:41 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026
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Graham: Learning capacity matters far more than current knowledge in hypergrowth companies
“What you know today is way less valuable than what you can learn by tomorrow. If you're inside of a company where the growth curve is like this, what you know today is like irrelevant.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 37:43 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026 negative
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Graham: Setting annual goals is a waste of time for early-stage startups
“When I'm building in seed stage, I'm setting goals every two months in a very iterative way. When I have an established business, I can actually set annual goals, but annual goals for early stage companies is just like a waste of time.”
Molly Graham Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 48:40 “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
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