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Granola is the AI notepad for professionals in back-to-back meetings. New users get 100% off their first month → https://granola.ai?via=KUzb8NmAli Hussain scaled Latch from a team of less than 10 to over 500 people. At one point, 1 in 10 new apartments in America was going up with their smart locks. He rode that growth all the way to a NASDAQ IPO.Then he started over.In 2023, he founded Tabs, building AI agents for finance and accounting teams. Three years later, Tabs has 150+ people, a $55M Series B led by Lightspeed, and 5x ARR growth in a single year, with customers like Cursor and Statsig.His scaling playbook sounds backwards: in order to grow, you have to go slow before you can go fast.In this interview, Ali answers the 10 questions every founder should face before scaling.00:00 Intro01:55 How did you learn to scale?02:54 What was the hardest part of scaling?03:53 How do you get ahead of the hard part?07:23 Granola, the AI meeting assistant08:35 How do you build a team that scales?09:59 How do you grow leaders as your team scales?12:21 How does your role change as you scale?13:11 How do you scale what only the founders know?14:28 How do you keep driving impact as the team grows?16:14 What's the most common scaling mistake?17:10 How is AI changing the way you scale?EO is a global media brand for builders.We tell the defining stories of founders shaping the future: people who see what others don’t and build what they believe in.Subscribe to EO: https://www.youtube.com/@eoglobalEO Magazine: https://www.eomag.ioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eostudio.official/X: https://x.com/eostudi0LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eo-studioEO Studio: https://eo.team/Business inquiries: partner@eoeoeo.netBuild what you believe in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
