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Evolving Teams and Managers for Dynamic Jobs
When Topia was in its infancy in 2012, we never had enough people or money to do the work we needed. We had three employees: me, Co-Founder Steve Black, and our first engineer, Peter Almasi. Yet we were trying to build a relocation software product, sign up partners to deliver relocations worldwide, design a brand, set up basic operations, build relationships with potential customers, write a business plan, raise investment, and much more. Each of us did many different things each day—we “wore many hats” in start-up parlance—based on the skills we had and what needed to be done. I was an extroverted ex-banker with an MBA, so naturally the business plan, customers, and finance areas fell to me. Steve ...
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