SCALING THROUGH CHAOS
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SCALING

Through Chaos

THE FOUNDERS GUIDE TO BUILDING AND LEADING TEAMS FROM 0 TO 1000

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You start a business because you’re obsessed with solving a problem. But as you scale, you’ll discover that 50% of your time is taken up with people – hiring, retaining, organizing and inspiring your team. Packed with deeply researched recommendations and first-hand accounts from the world’s best entrepreneurs, Scaling Through Chaos is the canonical guide to how to build, structure and run a high-performing team.

We've distilled 200,000 career profiles from more than 200 startups, enriched with insights, frameworks and case studies from 60 top founders and operators, to provide you with stage-by-stage guidance on how to make the right decisions across every part of your business.

We’ve also built TeamPlan, a companion app to Scaling Through Chaos.

TeamPlan App
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TEAM

Plan

Org design benchmarking tool to hire the right people, in the right roles, at the right time. Based on 200,000 career profiles from 200 high-growth tech companies, TeamPlan helps you make data-driven decisions about org design and benchmark team growth.

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Contributors include
Assaf Rappaport
CEO & Co-Founder, Wiz
Jason Citron
CEO & Co-Founder, Discord
Nadia Singer
Chief People Officer, Figma
Alexis Lê-Quôc
CTO & Founder, Datadog
Kate Ryder
CEO & Founder, Maven
Hanno Renner
CEO & Co-Founder, Personio
Job Van Der Voort
CEO & Co-Founder, Remote
Michael Manapat
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Notion
Surabhi Gupta
SVP Engineering, Robinhood
Kipp Bodnar
Chief Marketing Officer, Hubspot
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TEAMPLAN: AN ORG DESIGN BENCHMARKING TOOL FOR RAPIDLY SCALING STARTUPS

You’ve just closed your Series A, meticulously planned your product roadmap, and presented revenue targets to your team. The next day, your head of engineering drops big news: instead of the anticipated 20% increase in her team's size, she needs to double her headcount to deliver on the product roadmap. She argues that in her experience, this is the norm for your ambitious plans. But it’s far from what you’d anticipated. How do you determine the best course of action?

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