Rob Wiesenthal

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234 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Rich Habits Podcast · Robots, Rockets, and Air Taxis w/ BLADE CEO (Rob Wiesenthal) · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

But what I would say is building a company from scratch, what I always try to do is take the best of big companies that I found

and eliminate the weak parts.

Take the best of small companies that I found and eliminate the weak parts.

So for big companies, lots of great financial diligence, really strong organization, really strong progress, really strong process, but lots of bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy, politics, multi-layers.

Small companies, a lot of radical transparency.

not so much politics, maybe not as much financial rigor or process, put those into a blender and take the best of both.

I think that what's worked for me here and building Blay from scratch as the first employee, and again, I told you we started for $50,000.

I lent a person at the company $400,000 to get through during COVID, so we've seen

We have great days and not so great days.

Fewer people working harder is much better than having an incredibly large team where you may have executives that either are not being trained or may not have really well-defined responsibility.

When you have an executive that doesn't have a true writ, they're really smart.

They're going to try to create things to do.

That creates a process, bureaucracy, politics.

If people are working really hard, they're just focused on their work.

And if you get to a point where you hit tilt and you need more people, you can always do that.

But you can't always look at additional employees as an asset.

Sometimes it can be a liability.

So definitely lean, mean, work hard, and especially for young people, work out of an office.

No remote.

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