Yehoshua: Companies must become well-run once reaching 5,000 to 10,000 employees
Tamar Yehoshua · Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua · Sep 26, 2024 · at 14:54
Tamar Yehoshua (former CPO at Slack, President of Product at Glean) explains when operational discipline becomes necessary for hyper-growth companies.
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“Once you reach a certain scale and you've already conquered the market, then you kind of need to be well run. Then you bring in professional managers and things are about, The cost and executing and getting all the, like once you get to like over 5000 people or 10,000 people, like you gotta have things that, I mean, then you're like a growth engine.”
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