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What Founders Get Wrong About Scaling – With Carta’s CEO

2025-03-07 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·40m 37s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
What Founders Get Wrong About Scaling – With Carta’s CEO
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About this episode

Henry Ward, cofounder and CEO of Carta, has spent over a decade scaling his company from an early-stage startup to a 2,000-person industry leader. In this a16z Speedrun conversation with Games partner Josh Lu, Henry shares hard-earned lessons on: Hiring missionaries vs. mercenaries — and how to keep