Our hosts discuss viral moments from the past two weeks, including Carta’s exit of their secondary market business and Cloudflare’s AE layoff that went viral. The episode wraps up with a discussion sparked by one of Sam’s most recent LinkedIn posts on how Growth at Any Cost (GAAC) is dead.
In this episode, our host cover:
- 1:56 - Carta’s controversy that preceded the exit of their secondary market business
- 11:44 - The complexity of equity ownership and the importance of employer transparency
- 26:04 - Dealing with external challenges and internal factions after organization-wide chaos
- 38:38 - How layoffs should be handled and the complexity of traditionally private encounters going viral.
- 51:32 - Growth at Any Cost (GAAC) vs. Profitable, Efficient Growth (PEG)
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