Sean Mullaney

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The Entrepreneur Experiment · Why 10x Goals Are Easier Than 10% Ones: 5 Scaling Secrets from Google X & Zalando with Sean Mullaney · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

So you have like funded projects, which is like, we have this idea, we're going to build and ship this feature, we want to get it out by this day, this is the scope, this is the design.

That's your kind of like standard route, right?

80% of your work needs to be structured like that.

But then, you know, the remaining 20%, we do this resource allocation where I kind of say, like, I want big bets.

Big bets is our bucket of resourcing things.

The big bets ideas should fail at a very high rate.

If they're not, then they're probably in the 80% bucket, right?

Um, and the whole point of a big bet is we don't know if it's technically possible, but we need to go and try it.

And it has to sit within your five to 10 X better bucket.

Correct.

And when organizations stop funding and giving structure to their teams to be able to have that mindset of taking big bets and, uh, finding out what's technically possible, that's when innovation dies.

And the temptation is, you know, it's like a bit like a credit card.

It's like,

yeah, but we've got a couple of customer features we need to ship.

Can we just take a little bit out of that 20% bucket and put it in the 80?

And before you know it, you've got like zero in the big bets bucket.

And then you fast forward two or three years and you've fallen behind everyone else because there are, you know, a hundred or a thousand startups out there that are like their big bet bucket is like a hundred percent of their company.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, first of all, it's all about speed.

One of my favorite kind of quotes around innovation is when they asked Jeff Bezos, like, what is it about Amazon and the team there that has led to such incredible innovation in so many different product areas, right?

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