Truth, Lies & Work

# a players

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5:49Firing quickly and recognizing A-playersAl Elliott: So in your book, you start off back at college and how you started Storage Squad. Um, tell me, give me the timeline because I have in my head this idea of a subreddit called Sweaty Startup. Was that you? And EP 193 · 1 May 2025·interview· 5:49–17:2843:15Managing A-players and scaling cultureAl Elliott: You said something there that A-players come to you and say, look, there's a better way to do my job. I think my worry would be if I say, oh, cool. Okay. Give it a go. And it completely goes wrong. Do you havEP 193 · 1 May 2025·interview· 43:15–51:30

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