2 resources from Masters of Scale (Reid Hoffman) we point founders to, and the questions each answers.
🎧 Podcast
FreeBeginner
Why we picked it
Butterfield pivoted a failing game into Slack by keeping the one thing the team could not stop using, the clearest example of a pivot that keeps a foot planted. He also names the sober question that triggered it, can we not go out of business, which is deciding on reality rather than ego. Listen for how the winning product was already hiding inside the losing one.
Why we picked it
Chesky tells the Airbnb story in his own voice, including flying to New York to meet hosts and re-shoot their listing photos by hand. Hearing the founder narrate the unscalable early grind makes the lesson stick better than reading about it. A good listen for a commute when you need conviction that hand work is the job.
