Alice Bentinck

And then with, um, hire some people on your team, I think it's really hard.

Um, again, productivity is super important, uh, but sometimes it may not be productivity.

Sometimes it might be fit and, you know, that's such a tricky thing to pin down.

It's such a, um...

It's sort of less in fashion now, but about five years ago, you know, everyone was talking about the cultural fit interview.

And I think that's sort of gone slightly out of fashion now.

But there is this thing of sometimes you can have somebody who is totally brilliant in your team, but they are the wrong fit.

They either have a wrong view of what you're trying to create and...

actually that's probably some of the mistakes that i've made is where you have somebody in the team who is brilliant but they are trying to build something that is different to what you're trying to build um and i think that those can be some really hard things to identify because you can see their brilliance and their ability but actually if you're not fully aligned and if you're just ultimately trying to build different things that is going to be more destructive for the company than than you know having them having them out how important is it to have um

I suppose it depends on your definition of fun.

If you are in startups, and particularly if you're a founder, it probably is because you want a large part of your life's meaning and fun to come from work.

And I love what I do.

I feel so lucky that my job, my career, is getting to work with some of the most interesting and exciting people in the world.

and helping them unleash their potential on the world.

And these founders keep me on my toes.

Like they are not easy people to work with, but I love that.

I love that about them.

So do I have fun at work every day?

Yes, I do.

But I have fun because it's hard.