Bansal: Emotional Attachment to Team Members Is an Entrepreneur's Worst Mistake
Pankaj Bansal · 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 5 | Pankaj Bansal, Founder and CEO PeopleStrong · Jul 15, 2019 · at 16:54
Pankaj Bansal, founder and CEO of PeopleStrong, reflects on key mistakes made during his 13-year journey scaling the HR tech company.
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“Breaking up with people or parting ways at the right time because I took much longer because I was attached. It's the worst thing that an entrepreneur can do to an enterprise or to a team if you become attached to it.”
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