“We hired one of our first managers at the time. And that started shifting how we were thinking about the business from being the people doing all the delivery to starting to build out the foundation to build a team.”
David Lee Kim · Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies · How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Own Agency with David Khim | Ep #933
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What was described
Hired a first manager in 2022, shifting from operator-delivery to building a team foundation
Said nearby on the same subject
“If I were 18, 19 now, I would say, what's a foundation model I could build for a field I'm interested in? ... I'd like to build a foundation model for architecture ... I can query it to build me a house, analyze this, where are the structural points, and so forth.”
“It needs to be baked into how the design and development process of the teams that are building use cases is played out, so that it's really intuitive, it's shifted left”
“We spent 18 months building the product, hiring up the engineering team, building the app… once we launch, we need a path to profitability within 12-18 months.”
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“We have provided some guidelines and frameworks of ways to think through, especially if you're hiring your first team”