Dave Mortensen

A lot of times you get caught up in the wheel of perfection and you never get ahead of the curve.

I would rather, you know, it's speed over execution.

You talk about that all the time.

There's no left and right.

In fact, this would be, I'll go political for a moment, a world of politics.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You live in the gray, you'll get a lot more done.

When you start getting too far left, you get real enamored with a really good idea, but you're getting a lot of pushback.

You're either going to try and get to the gray, which good businesses do, or you alienate the other side.

When you start to do alienations, guess what?

At some point in time, we're going to run into a place where you burned your culture, the business isn't flourishing, and you're sitting there scratching your head going, man, this idea is so good.

Well, guess what?

It wasn't that great.

Yeah, I mean, you point to something and that that's interesting is that, you know, we in these institutionalized businesses that we all end up creating as we scale.

When you get to a certain level of leadership, you can get to this place where the institution reinforces that you're always right.

You know, it's kind of a scary place to be because you've done this, right?

I mean, gosh, Dave, you built this huge business.

You must now always have the right answers.

And the institution kind of reinforces that because if you say something and it sounds like you recruited really good people who are willing to challenge you, but it might be hard to disagree with Dave because he's got this evidence to validate that he makes great decisions, right?