Rob Walling

You had the Seattle music scene in the 90s.

And every couple years there's, well, there used to be like a new scene in a city and there was the punk scene in the UK in the 1970s.

And it's like, well, why does this happen?

And it's because these bands see the other bands around them and they're influenced by them, but they're all kind of rising up together.

And there's this momentum and there's this interest and there's this curiosity.

And maybe they're intentionally helping each other out or maybe it's unintentional, but whatever it is,

everyone's getting better and it's this virtuous cycle and so that's also how i think about especially small teams and i think you could be small teams within a larger company people really impact each other so if you get exceptional people working for you and if you are able to just keep feeding that the new people who come in realize what the expectations are of this company everyone is very very good at what they do and none of us drop balls and we're all kind people but

man, we execute and we ship and we punch way above our weight class in terms of what we get done and the impact we have on the world.

Tiny team, think of like MicroConf and TinySeed is nine full-time people in two part-time.

We have invested in 210 B2B SaaS companies in the last seven years.

We run all the MicroConf events in addition to Mastermind Matching and Connect.

We push out this podcast and YouTube.

We run SaaS Institute Premium Coaching.

We run a full SaaS accelerator.

We have $59 million, almost $60 million of assets under management.

There are teams that are two or three times the size of us that don't do the number of things that we do and the way that we're able to do it is because we have a lot of exceptional folks on the team.

Another question that I got a lot was how do you identify folks?

Is there a specific job title or job description?

I think that's where you start, right?

If you want an owner-level thinker, you don't put a job description for an office manager, right?