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About the episode

This episode focuses on startup growth within the future of work. How can founders scale their startup when almost every company is remote-first? What should your operations look like? When should you raise funds? How to hire your first people? To discuss, I invited Scott Markovits, veteran startup consultant and host of the Leading from afar podcast.

About the guest

Scott was the first hire at InVision and helped build the foundations of the company. From marketing, sales, product, operations, and most things in between. He mentored and consulted over a thousand early-stage startups; including tens of remote ones. He is the host of the Leading from afar podcast. You can reach him via Linkedin, Twitter, or his website.

About the host

My name is Peter Benei, founder of Anywhere Consulting. My mission is to help and inspire a community of remote leaders who can bring more autonomy, transparency, and leverage to their businesses, ultimately empowering their colleagues to be happier, more independent, and more self-conscious.

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Quotes from the show

I don't know if all the companies launching today would be remote. But I can tell you that 0% of companies launching today would choose hybrid.

One fundamental piece for every early-stage company that gets to a certain level is the idea around problem market fit. Everyone talks about product market fit. I'm not a believer in product market fit. We do not need more products. We have way too many of those things already. We need solutions to the problems that we have. So we need to solve a problem.

Leaders need to give ownership. It's like, hey, I assign you something, or I want you to do something. The best thing I can do is give you the ownership of how to do it. I can give you a general picture of what I see or think the success criteria are. But I need to give ownership to you on how to own that. Design it, build it, run it, whatever it is the way you want. If you understand the end goal, you can accomplish that with the ownership at hand. But it all starts with the leader giving you ownership.