Starting up is hard, building a business out of your startup is harder and being able to scale it is the hardest.
This is what the legend Ben Horowitz talks about in his book “The hard thing about hard things: Building a business when there are no easy answers”. He has openly written about his traumatising days of scaling Loudcloud / Opsware, how the company almost went bankrupt multiple times and how he dealt with three major lay offs in its journey.
The core of it is simple
“Take care of the people, the products and the profits – in that order”
Ben Horowitz
Things will always be harder than you expect but never let that impact the way you treat people who joined you in the journey. He shared an advice given to him by another legend Bill Campbell when he had to fire an executive –
“You can not let him keep his job but you absolutely can let him keep his respect.”
Bill Campbell
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