Ethan Summers

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1,339 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Watchtower - Mission Critical and Data Center Perspectives · Surviving Success: Why Mishandling Growth Kills Businesses Despite Massive Demand · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

And I think it's the predictability part that takes that fragility away and minimizes it.

I've been here before.

I've done this before.

I've done things like it.

And that's where scale really emerges from.

Scale is like a scoreboard result.

Scale is not an activity you go do.

It comes from discipline and predictability.

Or should.

Usually, yeah.

So interesting question for you, putting you on the spot.

Another one of the risks that emerges out of this is the idea that the founder, the leader, the CEO becomes the bottleneck.

As your chief of staff, I know you've experienced this.

How have you navigated that?

Maybe let's start with what didn't work as you were trying to navigate it, and then we'll talk about what has worked.

Or a movie from 20 years ago.

The flip side of that is the inevitable change from the leader's plans, right?

You bring in capable partners, capable lieutenants, and they are inevitably going to do things differently than you wanted it done.

And there's some cultural drift that happens.

Especially those early team members, you know, they signed up to work with you and they signed up to be part of that early mission and that early team.

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