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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

And I think what's been remarkable is that outside of a normal hierarchical enterprise organization that has goals, deliverables, measurements, metrics, bonuses, payment, that traditional structure, if you just eliminate all that and just say, "Okay, it's just trust and freedom and mission." Ryan Sarver : Awesome. That's amazing.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

The political opposition at that time had a conscious strategy that if they opposed something, then it couldn't be bipartisan by definition, and therefore he couldn't be a success by that metric that he, himself, had laid out as a marker. Eric Ries : Millions the last time I checked. Ron Klain : Millions, millions of people.