Don't Panic: Scaling Your Team Without Losing What Makes You, You.
summary
Studio growth focuses on concrete practices: define and publish values, hire for those values, and give juniors explicit onboarding and mentorship so they ask fewer questions. The studio scales from seven to ~31 people and models costs with five thousand pounds per person per month to show why 20 people means ~£1.2M/year. Expect storms — injuries, surprise operations, and canceled projects — and push decisions down so work continues. Culture shows up as the gelatinous team cube that shifts with every hire.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:45Purpose and values
- 9:01Hiring for culture
- 15:47Studio culture
- 21:44Shifting roles as the studio grows
- 24:50Financial storms
- 28:22Personal crises
- 30:07Game canceled
- 33:40Summary
- 36:28Q&A
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