1906.eth | Harold Hughes

Not all speed is created equal. Speed, my limited-series podcast, just wrapped today. Six founders joined me, and so much of what they said has stuck with me. @OneBandwagonFan said speed is how you demonstrate intention. Go quiet for three months, and it says something about your focus. Matt Curtis's rule: make being wrong cheap, so iterating fast turns being wrong into information instead of an ego hit. @ybernstein put it bluntly: if the engine isn't in good condition, it doesn't matter how hard you mash the accelerator. When a team slows down, fix the root cause. Jesse Stinebring made the case that speed and quality aren't a trade-off. Done right, speed gets you to higher quality faster. For @anna_shedletsky, leading from the front undermines ownership, and ownership is how you scale outcomes. @DavidBaszucki's magic quadrant is doing two things at once: holding the long view and getting stuff done. Every other quadrant, he says, is dangerous. I reflect on all of these conversations in Episode 8, the finale. Listen here: speed.buzzsprout.com/ If you’ve enjoyed the series, please share or leave a review wherever you listen. That helps more people find the show.

I had high hopes for my limited series podcast SPEED, but it's delivered more than I had imagined. And that's all because of my guests. I asked six founders the same question: what type of speed matters? I was expecting to hear some great tactical advice, and I did. But a pattern emerged that truly surprised me: every founder is trying to compress latency in one way or another. These founders are building different businesses and operating at different levels of scale. But they’re all working on the same problem: how to reduce the time from action to mission progress. That is Mission Speed. This synthesis contains the collective wisdom of my guests, and it is one of the best resources I’ve seen on the speed you really need in startups: keithvlucas.com/frameworks/s… If you care about speed and want to learn from people living it, I encourage you to read and share the synthesis. Huge thanks to my guests @OneBandwagonFan, Matt Curtis, @ybernstein, Jesse Stinebring, @anna_shedletsky, and @DavidBaszucki for the conversations.