startup employees

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 8, 2018 by Ooshma Garg · across every show →

Everything said about startup employees, oldest first

Sep 8, 2018
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Garg: Early startup employees stay longer when founders share hard times transparently
“Sometimes you think you're protecting people by not telling them, but actually your closest employees, especially when you're four to six, if you bring them into the challenge, And if they are challenge oriented, they will stay with you. But if you hide it, th…”
Ooshma Garg Sep 8, 2018 ▶ 29:01 A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
Jan 11, 2023
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Seibel: Employees copy founder behaviors because founders define company success
“They will copy what you're doing because you define success in your company.”
Michael Seibel Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 27:23 The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator
Feb 23, 2023 positive
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Seibel: Great startup employees are motivated, not discouraged, by severe bad news
“I've been often surprised at like sharing bad news. Like, oh, we only have two months of runway. Right. I would think would be demotivating, but for great startup employees, they're like, all right, how the fuck are we going to fix this? And then you can get j…”
Michael Seibel Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 18:00 The Hard Conversations Founders Don't Want to Have · Y Combinator
Aug 26, 2025
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Junestrand: Startup employees must scale exponentially rather than linearly as company grows
“The company is growing exponentially, so you need your teammates to scale exponentially as well. If people scale linearly, at some point it's a really large delta, and then, you know, things aren't working out anymore.”
Max Junestrand Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 22:14 How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
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