Talent Is Evenly Distributed — But Opportunity Isn't: Building $175M Companies, Letting Go of Power, and the War on Poverty Nobody's Talking About

It's just, You don't want your kid learning on a tightrope with sharks underneath, but a tightrope with a net, sure,

let them fall down.

For entrepreneurs listening, what separates companies that can sustain high growth from those that just plateau?

I think I would use the word organic adaptability.

I'm putting two words together I don't think I've done before, but it makes sense in my brain.

Because of what I said earlier, the markets are shifting all the time.

There's so much to adapt to all the time.

And your business, whatever it is, is not the same even as your competitor in the same space.

because you have a different dynamic.

And so a lot of times, like I sit on boards, different boards and people say things like, I know this works and I'm thinking, well, it may have worked for you at a completely different company, but it's not even in the same space.

It may not be in the same industry and it's not the same timeframe or it's not the same people running it.

And so to me, It's that adaptability and being able to take all this good, there's knowledge everywhere.

Like I'm looking on my bookshelf, being on the internet, AI can tell me how to run a business.

How do you apply it to what's going on at that moment? And what's the judgment and discernment to pick not only the solution, but the right problem to work on? so that you have the maximum outcome of resource.

That's the tricky part to me.

So to me, it's that adaptability and just learning quickly how to make those changes, I guess.

I don't know.

Did I answer your question? Yes.

No, that's great.

Yes.

Yeah.

What role does culture play when scaling technology companies?

You

know,

you're giving me a softball on that one.