Ryan Petersen
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But it happened much faster than...
It all happened so fast.
Uh, but I've learned plenty of lessons along the way.
Well, the number one thing I think is I learned from Toby from Shopify and Brian Chesky have been good advisors for me.
Micromanagement is not a bad word.
It's a good word.
You got to like stay involved in all the details.
And that's very hard in my company.
We're like big and sprawling and do a lot of stuff, but need to be way more hands on.
do lots of skip levels.
Don't trust, don't like hire big executives and then just trust them, like treat them like a black box.
Like I had, when I heard him say this, I was like, Oh my God, he's committed this sin at the highest possible level.
But like, don't do that at any level.
Like it's all my company, audit everything, inspect everything.
It's you can't just like give people too much leash to run things their way.
And if they disagree with me, like sure.