Bansal: Doubting Their Ability to Scale in 2009 Cost PeopleStrong Dearly
Pankaj Bansal · 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 5 | Pankaj Bansal, Founder and CEO PeopleStrong · Jul 15, 2019 · at 19:54
PeopleStrong founder Pankaj Bansal reflects on founder self-doubt and bringing in external leadership early in the company's journey.
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“In 2009, Shelly and I thought we can't scale up. We need to get people who can scale it up. So that was a very, very stupid thinking. We just thought that, okay, we've never built a large enterprise. So how will we do that? That was a very stupid thought that we did and which costed a company and people around us a lot.”
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