Why Company Communication Breaks at 50 People; a VC Notices What Happens When a Startup is Down to their Final $250k; You Are Almost Certainly Mispricing Your Product; and MOOOORE
Back in my day, we had web pages and URLs. And you had to look for stuff.
“Who needs to know about this?”: Communication as you Scale [Molly Graham/GlueClub] — People forget all the time that your company values can stay the same as you grow but the activities and practices required to achieve them successfully often have to evolve. Some things you leave behind, others your pull forward in a modified fashion. Here Molly makes the claim that ~50 people is a major transition point for most startups and that COMMUNICATION is the most important/quickest to break at this inflection.
What follows is a fantastic guide to how to think about communications; what you need to implement; and evaluating success. Seriously, read it.
Are We Doomed? Here’s How to Think About It [Rivka Galchen/The New Yorker] — Takes you inside a class at the University of Chicago where each lecture focuses on a perceived existential risk to humanity (AI, Climate…