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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. I worked closely with several gazelles for years and I’m still hard-pressed to remember their names when I’m asked about them. Wrangling Monkeys. I like monkeys. I really do.

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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

His name is Tomas Pueyo. 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. And the stakes are huge, because here we're talking about Kenya and Tanzania and all these countries, but what about India, 1.2