for many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times. - Reid Hoffman

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You should want your employees to be discoverable by the outside world in a professional context. They’re discoverable anyway, thanks to Google and social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, so you should incentivize them to craft their presence in a way that’s maximally helpful to the company.

When blitzscaling, speed is more important than having a “well-run” organization. Under normal circumstances, you should strive for organizational coherence and stability. Chaotic, unstable organizations make employees nervous and hurt morale. But when you’re scaling up at lightning speed, you may need to reorganize the company three times in a single year, or repeatedly churn through members of your management team.