Brad Smith

The best thing you can do for your company is to constantly cycle out people who are not a cultural fit or underperforming. This does a couple of things: 1. This keeps your A players happy because they're working with really good people. 2. This creates an environment where mediocrity is not okay. My company is growing really rapidly, and we probably let go of just as many people as we hire, constantly improving our team. I I think a lot of people underestimate how much time you should put into making a really strong team. It's not easy to manage a company of 50 people if not all 50 people are good. They don't all have to be great, but if they're not at least good, it's really tough to grow when you have people who aren't contributing, and communication is off. You always have to be constantly cycling people out. Look through your team today and really decide who's making an impact and who's not. Firing used to be hard for us, and the moment we decided this wasn't going to be something we put up with anymore, we experienced real scale. That's my hiring piece of advice for the day. I would love to hear how you guys tackle this and how you view team building.