Growth Insiders

How to Lead at Hypergrowth Companies

Hosted by Molly Graham

Tue, Mar 4, 2025

6:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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68 students

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What you'll learn

Keep your sanity while scaling

Practical ways to handle overwhelm, frustration and burnout as your team grows.

Confront the hard truths of management

Master difficult conversations, letting people go, and other realities no one tells you about.

Build resilient high performers

How to identify, nurture and retain the people who will define your company's future.

Why this topic matters

After 16 years managing teams at Google, Facebook, and multiple hypergrowth startups, I'll share what actually works. Skip the management theory - let's talk about how to have tough conversations, who to fire (and when), and how to keep your sanity while scaling. This is the guide I wish I had when I first became a manager.

You'll learn from

Molly Graham

Former COO @ Lambda School, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Ex-Facebook

For better or worse, I am probably best known for coining the term “Give Away Your Legos” to talk about what it’s like to work inside rapidly scaling companies. 


I currently run The Glue Club, a community that supports and elevates the strongest operators in the world, and write about lessons from building and scaling startups at mollyg.substack.com


Over the past 10 years, I have been the COO/Head of Operations for multiple organizations including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a philanthropy founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan; Quip, a start-up founded by Bret Taylor that sold to Salesforce for $750m; and Lambda School. I have also served as a board member, advisor, or interim exec at a wide variety of startups in fintech, climate, education, healthcare, and Web3.


Before that, I spent five years at Facebook in multiple different roles doing things like developing Facebook's long-term mobile strategy and building a lot of its early People philosophy and systems (and a hot second at Google, where I started my career in tech).

Previously at

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Bloom Institute of Technology
Facebook
Google

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