Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Well, you have to bring a lot of people in once you figure out what you're doing. And so to your point, once you realize you're building Disneyland and you've got the whole thing set and people know what it's about, then they can come in and understand, oh, I'm playing my piece over here. I'm supposed to design the line experience for the new ride sitting in Tomorrowland, but I know where that fits into this larger thing. I think you can scale once you have clarity of vision, but it's very difficult to get vision with a lot of people. Great. I think that's really powerful advice. It's just when you're starting something new. I actually had a CPA of N26 who was basically leading Google Hangouts, the initial launch of Google Hangouts, and he told the story of they put so many resources on it. We got to win. We got to do this. Larry Page or Sergey was sitting next to him just like we got to make this work and putting everything they could into it and it didn't work out. And I think that's- No, no, the more people you put in it, the slower everything becomes.…

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