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Re:Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund ... by ignoramous on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:12PM (#20621773)
Astounding. Congratulations, Alex.

If I may, can you please tell us:

As your business has grown, what has changed the most in terms of how you run it?

What were some of the biggest challenges you've overcome and any major obstacles you see in the near future for the business?

Who are your mentors?

Thanks.

Re:Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund ... by ayw on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:17AM (#20622083)
The biggest change is your jobs goes from doing things (which makes sense) to building an incredible team that can do things (which is a more unintuitive job). In the limit, it’s always a people business.

Overcome many challenges, but per my last answer, building a team of the best people has been the most important and most challenging. That, and learning how to do sales ;)

Too many mentors. People in Silicon Valley are incredibly helpful. To name a few: Dan Levine, Mike Volpi, Nat Friedman, Adam D’Angelo, Ilya Sukhar, Jonathan Swanson, Albert Ni, Jeff Arnold, Charlie Cheever, and Drew Houston to name a few. I’m very very lucky.