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RYAN: It's to literally treasure your culture more than anything else. So, you could call that people. You can call that whatever it might be when it comes to your team members. But when you focus on your culture, We've gone through some crazy. You go through some crazy stuff in a startup. All people see all day long is people ringing bells on Wall mexico reverse phone lookup Street, and oh, man, this guy or gal is a unicorn. That's amazing. To get to that point, they had to see some serious shit, right? Like they had to see some seriously crazy things where they've more than likely, Who was it? Wesley Chan was telling me that almost all of the successful companies have seen two periods of time where they were on death's doorstep, almost all of them. And that's something, to say that those crazy good companies have almost died twice. And it makes sense. You have to go through some crazy stuff and learn scaling, like we were just talking about, and marketing. And there's times where you think you're killing it, and then you hit a wall, and then you gotta figure it out all over again in a completely different manner.



through that, in my opinion, is to put a diehard team together and instill culture of, it's okay to do things for other people's job. Like the more not-my-job people that you have in your organization, the more you're gonna fight an uphill battle on instilling passion in people, and on top of that, getting people to help other people out. At Simplifeye, if somebody from CS sees somebody that needs help in operations, we go help them. We stop what we're doing, and/or we pause what we're doing, and we help that person, or we at least ask how we can do it for a multitude of reasons, right? One, it helps the business go faster, but, two, it also helps you learn.

think it's so cool, and that's one of the most fun things about startups, is that MBAs are great and highly recommend that people get them. But I would recommend joining a startup way more because you're going to learn more at a startup than you would ever even dream of at an MBA. Sure, Stanford MBA, go get it. But at the same time, a Simplifeye MBA, you're going to have more practical business knowledge than you would dream of, even if you were on CS or on sales or on operations, in engineering. It doesn't matter because it's a flatter organization, at least to start, and then you can learn from each other. And if you instill the culture of saying I see a piece of trash on the ground, I'll pick it up kind of deal, Yeah.