Jim Yu: Early leaders who helped build a company often cannot scale with it
Jim Yu · We hit $100m in revenue: 9 Lessons I Learned the hard way · May 9, 2024 · at 14:30
Jim Yu, founder of BrightEdge, reflects on operational and leadership lessons learned while scaling his enterprise SaaS company to over $100 million in ARR.
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“The people that built the business with you, the leaders that sacrificed everything with you, in the trenches, building the company, sometimes they're not gonna get you to the next step. Oftentimes that happens at different points in scale, and it is one of the hardest decisions that you have to make as a founder. Is your loyalty to the business, or is your loyalty to the people that got you there? Sometimes you have to make that choice.”
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