Betterkop: Running a Scaling Startup as a Democracy Slows the Business Down
Mads Vejderkop · QuickOrder Hits $6m Helping Restaurants Drive Loyalty. Next? Raising $20m on $100m Valuation. · Jul 24, 2021 · at 16:15
Mads Betterkop, co-founder of restaurant software platform QuickOrder, reflects on leadership mistakes made in the company's early days.
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“The importance of not making everything a democracy in the business. And sometimes as a leader, you gotta make decisions. You can't talk everything out. So be more decisive. And we kind of had a tendency, you know, in the early days with my founders that we talked about every decision. And that kind of, it's fine in the beginning, but when you get a bit further, it starts to slow down business. So you've got to get to the point where the C-level makes decisions, even if not all founders aren't C-level.”
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