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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home 1 Notifications Chat Bookmarks Articles Profile More Tweet Nicklaus Tran @nickktrannn Tweet See new posts Conversation nico laqua @nico_laqua · 1h Maybe that culture is fine for you at linear, and it looks like it’s working great for you! You’ve created something worth over a billion dollars in 7 short years, that’s something very few people on the planet have done before. But sometimes there are big problems that need Show more Quote Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen · 12h The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something. And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you x.com/HarryStebbings… 36 8 105 42K Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen I get that business insurance is similar Nobel level type of pursuit as ground breaking physics and the Ma

Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen Replying to @nico_laqua I get that business insurance is similar Nobel level type of pursuit as ground breaking physics and the Manhattan project. Hopefully the blast radius will be contained. I don’t think the disagreement is whether hard problems require intensity. The disagreement is whether intensity has to become a permanent operating model, and whether working seven days a week is the thing that compounds. My argument is that for most startups, the real compounding advantage is not raw hours. It is clearer thinking, better judgment, learning, and a team that

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