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The 5 Types of Employees You’ll Find on Your Startup Journey (and How to Manage Them)

Up and Running

He was joking, of course—your employees aren’t a bunch of animals struggling for survival at a watering hole in Tanzania—but they sure will act like it sometimes. However, their reliability makes them prone to overload; owners would be well advised not to lean on their rhinos too much. And then, hire her on the spot.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. You already had Republicans on the republican side leaning towards more openness to the economy, and the democratic side more towards the health and lives.