I co-founded Ambition (YC W14) and have spent the last 10 years serving as CEO before stepping down in December.
Upon hitting ~50 employees, started to think more about the push/pull between alignment and velocity. How can we maintain effective "founder mode" as we scale?
One of the first things to slow down was decision-making. Who should be involved? In what capacity? Is this worth a meeting? Turns out it's a painful process getting a start-up to even consider, let alone adopt, something like RASCI... even with growing frustration that things are taking too long.
So I decided to try and build decision-making software that might have helped, something that would have introduced incremental process in a more palatable way.
While there's certainly overlap with Slack, Notion, etc... in my head there's still a real need for something like this but I'm curious what you (and the market) think.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts, feedback, tough love.
I co-founded Ambition (YC W14) and have spent the last 10 years serving as CEO before stepping down in December.
Upon hitting ~50 employees, started to think more about the push/pull between alignment and velocity. How can we maintain effective "founder mode" as we scale?
One of the first things to slow down was decision-making. Who should be involved? In what capacity? Is this worth a meeting? Turns out it's a painful process getting a start-up to even consider, let alone adopt, something like RASCI... even with growing frustration that things are taking too long.
So I decided to try and build decision-making software that might have helped, something that would have introduced incremental process in a more palatable way.
While there's certainly overlap with Slack, Notion, etc... in my head there's still a real need for something like this but I'm curious what you (and the market) think.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts, feedback, tough love.
Travis
For anybody that just wants to play around with my staging environment / try out the decision builder without any setup here's a link:
https://staging.orgtools.com/magic-share-link/5a917388cf19ed...