‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups | First Round Review
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Molly Graham now writes on Substack and heads up Glue Club , a community designed to help leaders grow their companies and themselves. Molly Graham has seen a lot. Her team at Google leapt from 25 to 125 in just 9 months. During her 4+ years at Facebook , the company exploded from 500 employees serving 80 million users to 5,500 employees and over 1.1 billion users. (Her job was to sort out the culture, compensation, and performance systems to help make that possible — no big deal.) As COO of productivity tool startup Quip , she both l
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