Scott Trench
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696 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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It was like, obviously, I want to be a part of this company, this mission of what's going on over here.
And so I just threw myself into it when I joined in 2014.
And by 2017, I ended up leading the company as the founder stepped back.
I consider myself an entrepreneur at this point, for sure.
I kind of have a different path around it, right?
I didn't found a company, but I have other advantages too, right?
Where being in a private equity-backed business, I had two very powerful mentors, right?
First was the founder, Josh,
who I learned directly from for three years.
He taught me the concepts of growth hacking, of how to be scrappy, how to build up things.
Another great mentor was a man named Mike Zawalski, who was the chairman of the board, very traditional private equity operating partner.
And that's a very powerful playbook, right?
There's another set of systems that one needs to scale a business, which include the ability to hire and fire, to actually manage, to actually deliver quality performance reviews, to put together workshops,
a real strategy.
What is a strategy?
What does that look like?
What does a real annual operating plan look like?
These are things that don't make sense for a very small business with a handful of employees most of the time.
It provides a great deal of inflexibility and can actually constrain growth.
But they're absolutely essential to go from a startup or a small business to something with
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