I'm not ready or they're not ready or our process is not ready for them to be successful

every time with this.

And so what's ending up happening is I'm doing a lot of work to set things up for everyone

to do things and own them and see things through all the way.

But then I'm also checking things and reviewing emails.

And it's basically like twice the work.

And it's really tough.

Welcome back to Tiny Seed Tales, a series where I follow a founder through their struggles, victories, and failures as they build their startup.

I'm your host, Rob Walling. I'm a serial entrepreneur

and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.

This is the seventh episode of our first season with Craig Hewitt of Castos. Before our interview

this week, Craig had sent me an audio clip that he'd recorded the week before

in a moment when he felt overwhelmed by the work ahead of him and his growing team.

You heard a snippet of it at the beginning of this episode, and we're going to play the whole

clip later. Also coming up, we'll talk about the exciting developments from Castos' experiment

to do away with the credit card requirements for their two-week trial.

But I want to begin today with a conversation about team and culture and how Craig's role as a founder needs to evolve as his team grows. During our interview, Craig was much more optimistic than he

was during his recorded clip. And I've been thinking a lot about team lately because it gets

really important kind of at this stage I think.

Talk to me more about that. What stage are you at that team is becoming important? Is it

MRR or is it team size? Yeah, I think it's team size and our ability to move fast. We're not

so many people that we can't, you know, ship quickly and make

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