The archive · Season I
Every conversation,
Every conversation,
in order.
Eight episodes so far. Each one a long, careful conversation with someone running the executive office at a hyper-growth company.
Eight episodes so far. Each one a long, careful conversation with someone running the executive office at a hyper-growth company.
The eleven-day clock, four agencies in the room, and the part of the job nobody puts on a job description.
Priya's founder told her on a Friday they were opening London. Six weeks later the office was open.
Eight time zones. Three boards. Systems built when nobody told her to.
Six months of work disappearing from her desk and reappearing on someone else's. What to give up cleanly, what to keep.
$80M raised. Headcount doubled. The vendor stack built at thirty people breaking at sixty.
The same operating cadence as a chief of staff at a hyper-growth startup, with three differences.
What changes when you stop buying for one company and start buying for forty.
The first episode of Front Office. What this craft actually is. What it isn't. Why nobody writes about it.