Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company
This lesson is an essay published on a16z.com.
Read the essayWhat you'll get
Ben Horowitz names the three tools for growing a company, specialization, organizational design and process, and argues for adding each only when the simpler way has clearly stopped working. It's a clear account of what breaks as a team grows from ten people to fifty.
Do this week
Name the one place where work keeps falling between people, and decide whether it needs an owner, a change in who reports to whom, or a written process.