I'll describe what you see for the people who do scale.

The founders who are not afraid to be vulnerable, they understand that they are works in progress

and then figure out the ways to constantly grow, evolve and push their own abilities.

And it's the people who aren't willing to admit to themselves or whomever they work,

that they don't know something or they're not letting themselves have that learning moment

of accepting that they don't know something, that they tend to just hold themselves back

and not scale as a company scales.

Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host Shane Perish.

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My guest on this episode is Sarah Table. Sarah is a general partner at Benchmark.

This conversation is interesting because not only is Sarah an ambassador, but she has significant

operating experience and scaling as an early employee at Pinterest.

We talk about how studying philosophy helped her as a VC, her concept of the net present value of

pain and how it applies, why every strength has a corresponding weakness, where boards go wrong,

assessing the performance of a CEO, lessons from rapidly scaling Pinterest, and so much more.

It's time to listen and learn.

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