Founder on urgency: tie pay to verifiable client outcomes, let the team lose money
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-08
Responding to whether urgency can be taught, curiousvii explains his team earns significantly more when they hit verifiable client outcomes faster, and can technically lose money if they miss a pre-specified deadline. In his view, one real experience with this incentive structure is all it takes to internalize urgency—economics beats lecturing.
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