Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…It's a bit, it's just like one of these mythology things. I don't think it's the wrong, as a contract, it's more bottoms up than many other companies because you do have these degrees of freedom within the construct. But like, make no mistake, like Mark or me or Chris Cox or Javi, like they have very strong opinions about what we should be doing as a company. And you have to, your bottoms upness works within that framework. But we also are, it is true that you can ask Mark any question and he's going to answer it. Same with me, same with Chris, same with Javi. And also that like we certainly take inspiration from the discussion that we have with employees. So I don't know, it's just not as black and white as people kind of tend to paint it. I think one of the biggest lessons here is making it at least feel like you have a lot of say. Like even though a company is very, here's the big strategic pillars arena, you're very good at making people feel like they can have an impact and a say. And can I tell you, the most important thing is just giving people clear guidelines so they know where do they have space and where do they have no space. One of the things that we go in these reviews with Mark or my team with me, I'm sure, and I'm like, for this part of the UI, I will draw it for you. It's going to be like this. And this other part, I'm like, cool, that's important too. I don't have a clear vision of it. Why don't you do it? So there's just really clear guardrails of like, okay, where are we just on assignment and where do we have more flexibility? Yeah.…

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