Stop being the bottleneck to scale your business
Yahoo could have bought Google for $1M and Facebook for $1.1B, then turned down $45B. A deep dive on how founder ego becomes the bottleneck — and the 15-minute weekly habit that fixes your filter.
Steve Simonson
Show notes
Few companies were ever handed the future as often as Yahoo, and it said no every time. This deep dive uses that timeline to show how a founder’s ego and fuzzy priorities become the bottleneck to scale.
It covers building a personal why sharp enough to filter opportunities automatically, spending 15 distraction-free minutes a week refining it, the tombstone exercise as a blunt level-set, and why the right hire is an investment in your why, not a cost to minimize.
For founders who suspect they are the constraint. Build the power grid — and when the future knocks, don’t be Yahoo.