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Give each co-founder one area to fully own
Team says no real fights; reached ~$50M/year and a sale
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What they did
Four co-founders each owned one domain: CEO (Zach), co-founder/investor/advisor (Blake), CMO/COO for marketing and operations (Jake), CTO managing the tech team and product (Henry). Complete trust to handle their area; team said this avoided fights.
What happened
Team claims no real fights; took the app to ~$50M/year run-rate and a sale
“all of us had our own domain of expertise. And we all had complete trust in each other to go and handle that one task. That's why we didn't really have any fights.”
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