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Spend 90% of your week on what only you can do (opens the original)
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When you look at your to do list, what items could you delegate so that you become more focused on what you truly need to own? For some reason, you keep these on your own list anyway, partly because hiring feels premature and partly because explaining the task would take longer than finishing it yourself, right?Clara Ma helps to create space for founders to focus on what truly needs their attention by finding the right chief of staff to take on the rest. She joined Hugging Face as a chief of sta
Your product is ten percent of the work (opens the original)
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You can build the thing now. A weekend of prompts gets you an interface, a landing page, something real enough to put in front of people. Then comes the part nobody warned you about, where the product turns out to be the smallest piece of the work. has started five businesses, and she puts a number on that piece.She got a D minus in economics, restarted college from scratch, and spent a decade running a consulting practice alongside a full-time career that ended with her leading product at an AI
The founder who hires for one trait and teaches the rest (opens the original)
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There is probably something in your business that used to be the reason it worked, a moat, a market, a way of hiring, and lately you can feel something changing. What do you do when the thing that worked stops working?Zach Forester has built his career out of exactly that moment.He walked away from a mortgage company he co-owned when the stress started taking his health. He landed in San Francisco and started a black-car company whose first client was Goldman Sachs. A dinner introduction led him
Why founders fall out of love with the problem (opens the original)
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Building or leading anything is a long grind of one step forward and what feels like two steps back. The calendar is full, the pressure is constant, and the wins keep arriving later than you wanted or expect. The question that decides whether you last is how you keep performing, and keep leading well, over years consistently. has spent her whole career studying how people do exactly that.She started in dance and theater as a kid, danced professionally for a WNBA team, and earned an MFA in dance
Fall in Love With the Problem, Not the Solution (opens the original)
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Stephanie Simpson left full-time teaching in 2021 to build a portfolio coaching business, bringing a background in dance and psychology to how she helps leaders and founders work with stress instead of against it. This is a conversation about reinvention, the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, and why the people who last fall in love with the problem, not their solution.In this episode, we cover:→ Why most businesses fail: the founder falls in love with the solution and stops listening t
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