Gwyneth Paltrow
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I don't.
I don't.
Some really good shit. Right?
Some really good shit. Right?
Yes. And I take that so seriously. And I don't release anything unless... it is the best possible product that I can release. Like I'm relentless. I'm a psycho perfectionist about product. And if you've surrounded yourself with psycho perfectionists. Yeah, I have. I have. I really have. Like, especially, and more and more as we've kind of grown up into a proper company, like
Yes. And I take that so seriously. And I don't release anything unless... it is the best possible product that I can release. Like I'm relentless. I'm a psycho perfectionist about product. And if you've surrounded yourself with psycho perfectionists. Yeah, I have. I have. I really have. Like, especially, and more and more as we've kind of grown up into a proper company, like
You need to hire people, I think, who are holding everybody to the same standard as you're holding things. It's like if a fabric is not good enough, they need to feel it and touch it and send it back, right? And that's really what gives me leverage too, is having people who have a high bar for excellence.
You need to hire people, I think, who are holding everybody to the same standard as you're holding things. It's like if a fabric is not good enough, they need to feel it and touch it and send it back, right? And that's really what gives me leverage too, is having people who have a high bar for excellence.
I've made so many mistakes and, you know, so many of the mistakes are also like, um, not questioning, you know, especially because I felt like I didn't, I didn't finish, I didn't finish college, let alone go to business school. Like I didn't grow up in a corporate environment.
I've made so many mistakes and, you know, so many of the mistakes are also like, um, not questioning, you know, especially because I felt like I didn't, I didn't finish, I didn't finish college, let alone go to business school. Like I didn't grow up in a corporate environment.
So a lot of my mistakes were around trusting people who were like, just trust me, not doing my own diligence, you know, to creating the wrong products, to, um, you know, like spending a ton of time on money and money on something that doesn't work. And I think we've had to, you just have to be graceful and admit defeat and refocus.
So a lot of my mistakes were around trusting people who were like, just trust me, not doing my own diligence, you know, to creating the wrong products, to, um, you know, like spending a ton of time on money and money on something that doesn't work. And I think we've had to, you just have to be graceful and admit defeat and refocus.
And, but, you know, you just touched on something like when I've had to do reductions in force, that's the hardest thing for me. And- One of my friends works at Goldman Sachs and just every year they just cut the bottom 10%. Just cut. Just cut. Yeah. As a matter of excellence, right?
And, but, you know, you just touched on something like when I've had to do reductions in force, that's the hardest thing for me. And- One of my friends works at Goldman Sachs and just every year they just cut the bottom 10%. Just cut. Just cut. Yeah. As a matter of excellence, right?
They do it everywhere.
They do it everywhere.
And I think as women, we struggle to do that. I also think that when we do that, you know, it becomes a much more interesting story in the news than when men do that. Like, I don't read these stories about Google cutting, you know, doing their, you know what I mean? Never. Right.
And I think as women, we struggle to do that. I also think that when we do that, you know, it becomes a much more interesting story in the news than when men do that. Like, I don't read these stories about Google cutting, you know, doing their, you know what I mean? Never. Right.
And they do it all the time.
And they do it all the time.