If you want to Optimize things, work at a big company.
If you want to Build things, work at a startup.
Allison Barr Allen
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Allison Barr Allen
@abarrallen
Investor at Operator Collective - supporting founders building generational companies (Seed+A) / Prev. early Uber / Ohio native / Small but mighty Marathoner
- AirBnb + Remote work will enable Citizens of the World in a way that’s never been seen before.
- I’m obsessed with the startup ideation process. Eg. How do we create more hyper-growth companies & what were the top companies really like at the earliest days? This book might be the closest thing to a repeatable framework.
- I’ve learned more in the past 1.5 years running a startup than I did in the previous 10 years of my career. Highly recommend.
- Sorry to break it to all of the remote-only people, but I think offices will make a comeback.
- Work so hard that they call it luck.
- Instead of shopping for things, I shop for startups & founders to invest in 😬 🛍
- Sales is often treated as a dirty word, but really everything is sales.
- On Twitter, you can build a network solely based on your clarity & quality of thought. Incredible.
- Top startups are starting to do 6 days a week in the office. Could not have predicted this a few years ago.
- Recruiting is one of the hardest things you do at a startup but probably THE most important. Your company is your people.
- Your 20s are for figuring out who you are, and your 30s are for being who you are.
- I predict Google will replace Sundar and stock will go bonkers. He might be a great person, just not right CEO right now.
- In December, I gave a personal finance talk on Stock Investing 101 & I'm happy to open source the presentation here. Investing is for ALL!
