Made with Grit
42.5: Parenting, productivity, & starting more businesses (part 2)
Episode Summary
In part two of the conversation, Landon and Kyle discuss experimenting with approaches to building businesses, how much is "enough", and reward and incentive structures as companies grow. They also touch on the current moment: the end of the 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan.
Episode Notes
In part two of the conversation, Landon and Kyle discuss experimenting with approaches to building businesses, how much is "enough", and reward and incentive structures as companies grow. They also touch on the current moment: the end of the 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan.
Today’s Topics:
- Experimenting with new markets and approaches to building businesses
- Doubling down vs. autopilot vs. freedom to build other stuff
- Thinking critically about the end goal to maintain optionality
- How much is "enough"?
- How do we build an asset that affords our team a comfortable life + enables us the freedom to work on anything we want to work on
- Profit-sharing as a simple, shared incentive structure
- Acknowledging the moment: the difficult and tragic end of the 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan
- Where do these events fall in the arc of history? (local vs. global optima)
- Podcast chats as historical markers
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