Aug 31, 2026 · 43 min · 12 segments
A lot of founders are told to move fast and break things. Matthew Hibbert did the opposite. He and his co-founder Kasey Russell started Maka Power with a written plan and built it into a power…
Matthew HibbertGuest
Nathan MaertinsHost
Just closing out, Matt, if there's a founder who's listening who's where you were 10 years ago, what's your biggest piece of advice that you'd tell them that you wish you knew 10 years ago as you were starting MacPower?
I would tell them just to be deliberate and intentional in everything they do.
Because when you're growing a company and you're going at 110 miles an hour, it's easy for things to fall off and you just want to keep going.
But if there's one thing that's true is that anything you miss along the way, you're going to have to turn around and pick up and do it.
Don't just shoot at the hip and hope things stick because you might be successful short term in doing that.
But looking long-term is that that's not a winning formula is you have to be thoughtful and intentional and create a plan and stick to that plan and update it as required.
And I think that adds some nuance to where I think oftentimes founders are given the advice of move fast and break things.
It needs to be always thought through a strategic lens and focused effort and making sure that it's not just movement for movement's sake.
And you want to make sure you get the most out of every working hour you have.
And if you're wasting that time on something that's not going to help you achieve your goals...
You might think in that moment it's going to help you, but if you haven't put any kind of intelligent thought into why you're doing things a certain way, it will inevitably catch up to you.
Just closing out, Matt, if there's a founder who's listening who's where you were 10 years ago, what's your biggest piece of advice that you'd tell them that you wish you knew 10 years ago as you were starting MacPower?
I would tell them just to be deliberate and intentional in everything they do.
Because when you're growing a company and you're going at 110 miles an hour, it's easy for things to fall off and you just want to keep going.
But if there's one thing that's true is that anything you miss along the way, you're going to have to turn around and pick up and do it.
Don't just shoot at the hip and hope things stick because you might be successful short term in doing that.
But looking long-term is that that's not a winning formula is you have to be thoughtful and intentional and create a plan and stick to that plan and update it as required.
And I think that adds some nuance to where I think oftentimes founders are given the advice of move fast and break things.
It needs to be always thought through a strategic lens and focused effort and making sure that it's not just movement for movement's sake.
And you want to make sure you get the most out of every working hour you have.
And if you're wasting that time on something that's not going to help you achieve your goals...
You might think in that moment it's going to help you, but if you haven't put any kind of intelligent thought into why you're doing things a certain way, it will inevitably catch up to you.
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