Insights topic
Founders & Teams
Founding teams, recruitment, leadership and the organisational decisions that determine execution quality.
The people question - founding teams, early hires, leadership and how teams change as a company grows.
What this topic covers
Founding teamsEarly-stage hiringLeadershipManagement teamsBoard and governance
Founders & Teams
What makes a founding team work in a venture-built company
How founding teams are formed in a venture builder, which hires come first, and how ownership shifts from the build team to the founders over time.
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Building the founding team before you build the product
The four capabilities a founding team needs, how to structure equity and roles honestly, and what to settle before the first hire.
Read the articleScale
Building enterprise value, not just revenue
The six components of enterprise value beyond revenue, and the decisions during Scale that make a company valuable rather than merely large.
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