Tiny Office Hours

This is the audio from Tiny's first Annual General Meeting. It has been slightly edited for clarity and to remove the long legal preamble (voting and AGM business matters) at the beginning.

Questions:

Questions: (1:02) How can I become a Tiny Foundation Fellow? (2:39) How do I turn my music production website into my full-time job? (6:05) Should I focus more on my agency or go all-in on my SaaS business? (11:20) Does the founder staying or leaving a company affect it? Best predictor of an operator’s success? (15:25) How do you go about finding executives? (20:21) Why does Castro omit conservative podcasts from the list of podcasts users can subscribe to? (21:11) Opinions on my startup and pitch? (24:53) How would you have created a positive outcome for Flow? (28:57) How do I find a CEO to run my businesses independently? (32:27) To both of you: What is actually your favorite hobby outside of anything work related? Is it typically (w/o covid) a group activity or something on your own? Thanks! (34:23) Should I start my own company or look for a job? (38:20 Why did you build Capital Daily as an investigative journalism newsletter? (41:18) How and why did you decide to do Tiny as a holding company? (44:40) How do I best incentivize my COO? (48:00) What’s the best way to learn how to be a good operator? (51:35) How would you recommend balancing early free customers vs. paid for a B2B SaaS company? (53:13) Can you please explain the scout system in detail. Thank you!

We answer questions from donors for our first ever charity Ask Us Anything session. We raised over $50,000 (with Chris and I matching dollar for dollar) and will be donating it to 1Up Victoria Single Parents Resource Center. Thank you to all the generous donors! Stuff We Recommended: The Dhando Investor by Mohnish PabraiThe E Myth by Michael GerberHow To Get Rich by Felix DennisThe Tao of Charlie Munger by David ClarkHoward Marks Memosour animated versionfull audio version