Peter McKay (Snyk): Leading Through Hypergrowth

pHypergrowth is hard. Sustaining hypergrowth is even harder. Leaders need to constantly bring new talent into the organization to avoid plateaus. The tricky part? New talent almost always entails changing roles for existing team members. Peter says the answer is to embrace the pain of difficult conversations to maintain speed./ppbr/ppstrongKey Takeaways:/strong/pp[2:54] What makes hypergrowth hard for a startup leader?/pp[5:48] Anticipating plateaus to guide company success, and answering What could go wrong?/pp[9:42] The time to anticipate plateaus is when things are going really well./pp[13:56] Early indicators of problems, and staying ahead to scale talent with the organization] /pp[17:07] Adding specialized talent rather than replacing people/pp[20:02] How to approach tough conversations/pp[24:51] Choosing the pain of difficult conversation, and the context of delivering bad news/pp[27:32] Understand what youre good at and be proactive in finding talent who can do the things you dont like to do/ppbr/ppstrongMentioned in this episode:/strong/ppa href=https://openviewpartners.com/newsletter/#.YfRAM-rMIuU rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankSign up for OpenViews weekly newsletter/a/ppa href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/pemckay/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankPeter McKay, CEO of Snyk/a/ppa href=https://snyk.io/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankSnyk/a/ppFollownbsp;a href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakebartlett rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankBlake Bartlett on Linkedin/a.nbsp;/ppPodcast produced bynbsp;a href=https://openviewpartners.com/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView/a./ppView ournbsp;a href=https://openviewpartners.com/blog rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankblognbsp;/afor more context/inspiration./ppa href=https://www.linkedin.com/company/openview-/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Linkedin/a/ppa href=https://twitter.com/openviewventure rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Twitter/a/ppa href=https://www.instagram.com/openviewventure/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Instagram/a/ppa href=https://www.facebook.com/OpenViewVenture/ rel=noopener noreferrer target=_blankOpenView on Facebook/a/p