Company Building, Network Effects, and Understanding Different Business Models with Anu Hariharan

Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 1 p.m.

b'Anu Hariharan (@anuhariharan), partner at Y Combinator, joins Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- Common mistakes that CEOs make when growing their companies.

- How to think about compensation plans in a growing startup.

- How to think about managing your board, including why you should get to know your board members as people, as well as when to listen to them or not.

- How founders should think about the possibility of a reckoning in the macro environment.

- Her talk on the nine different types of business models and how investors should think about them.

- Her unique take on network effects and the three laws that she learned from Marc Andreessen.

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