“We had to halve the team size, we had to change the outlook on growth, but also we had to culturally change what we cared about”
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Said on The Business Leader Podcast with Sir Richard Harpin
Anne Madden · TED Radio Hour · The shocking power of tiny things
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grew soil microbes that had never been cultured before using new growth techniques
“We had to halve the team size, we had to change the outlook on growth, but also we had to culturally change what we cared about”
“You actually put them in a petri plate next to a microbe that causes disease… you look to see who grew and who died.”
“I used to really check before I went and did a speech at some company, how fast the company was growing. I would ask like kind of about revenue growth and about headcount growth”
“They can request a change and have it pretty much in one to two hours, which they've never had before.”
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