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Ryan Petersen

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The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

It's why I like no investor ever gives me useful advice really, because like I,

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Not sure they can about people and some high level stuff for sure.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Capital markets, like business, like strategy, like how could they ever know my business better than me?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I obsess about it like every waking hour.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Yeah.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

PG wrote about that in his founder mode thing.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

It's like, well, if you're a professional manager, your mindset is you can run any companies.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And in that world, you shouldn't be too involved in all the things because you don't know about that particular domain, that industry.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So just trust the people that are already there.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Your job is kind of.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

babysitting at all but that's not like founder founder mode as they come to be called is like you should know all the stuff like more or less you were at that talk what did you were you inspired by that what did you take away from it what was the moment that really like solidified things for you like i wish i could i wish it was recorded he went on a rant like four or three hours just like

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

He's a very intense guy.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I took like four or five pages of notes.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I was definitely like enthralled in the back and like a lot of stuff deeply resonated.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

But I'm already, yeah, I've shared already some of the specific things.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

A lot of it is like, yeah, just be way more involved in the day-to-day.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And if the people don't, and do a lot more skip levels, like meet the people who report.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Don't trust the managers.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Not in a bad way.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Like, you know, I'm here to help.