employee
also referred to as: employees
13 statements across 11 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jan 6, 2021 by Jenny Gustafson · across every show →
Everything said about employee, oldest first
Jan 6, 2021 neutral
Jan 6, 2021 negative
Gustafson: Overworking Employees Prevents Companies From Being Profitable and Sustainable
“Unfortunately, one of the just basic, basic things that so many American companies do not understand is you're not going to be profitable, and you're not going to Have a sustainable company if you work your employees to the ground.”
Apr 6, 2021 positive
Weisbrot: Weekly check-in engagement reveals which employees think like managers
“Some of the people will write, like they'll give me real information. Some people won't give me anything. And that also tells me long-term who's thinking like a manager and who's thinking like an employee. Who am I going to be more likely to give opportunities…”
Apr 13, 2021
Toles: Business NDAs remain enforceable much longer than employee agreements
“The former sorts of NDAs, sort of the business opportunity ones,
Tend to be pretty enforceable for a pretty long time.
The latter tend to be enforceable for a limited period of time.
Usually that period of time is on the order of a couple of years, and usually…”
May 10, 2022 positive
Aug 2, 2022 positive
Mar 21, 2023 positive
Genas: Founders should design systems assuming staff only work their paid hours
“If you start from the basis that
Anyone that you hire or anyone you bring into your business is really just here to do the paid hours and need that support.
If you start from that base level, then anyone above that is a bonus and you still covered all basis …”
Mar 21, 2023 negative
Genas: Founders unreasonably expect new hires to match their passion and initiative
“I say that it's actually one of the problems that a lot of business owners, early stage business owners have when they're starting to build their team is they assume that everybody should have the same level of knowledge, the same level of passion, the same le…”
Jul 12, 2023 positive
Mark Beneke models his leadership philosophy on the historical baron
“So a baron is essentially the, like, the person that held over a small section of a kingdom. They had, like, their little town, you know, within it, and they were the leader within that town, and they would kind of have people come in and work for them, and th…”
Aug 19, 2025 positive
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Lechner: Monthly employee AI build presentations drive adoption better than mandates
“It's hard to be top down and tell your employees you need to be using AI. You can't really control what they're doing, and so what they proposed is at the end of each month, everyone needs to either, like, build a new workflow or a product or something using S…”
Jun 23, 2026 bearish
Aug 4, 2026 bearish
Snyder: Employees Deeply Distrust the Confidentiality of Corporate Software Platforms
“There's still tremendous amount of distrust when it comes to tech platforms that a company is deploying and the anonymity, the confidentiality of the interactions that you're having with that which I think in, in some cases is unfounded and in others is well-f…”