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Ali Hussain scaled Latch from a team of less than 10 to over 500 people. At one point, 1 in 10 new apartments in America was going up with their smart locks. He rode that growth all the way to a NASDAQ IPO.
Then he started over.
In 2023, he founded Tabs, building AI agents for finance and accounting teams. Three years later, Tabs has 150+ people, a $55M Series B led by Lightspeed, and 5x ARR growth in a single year, with customers like Cursor and Statsig.
His scaling playbook sounds backwards: in order to grow, you have to go slow before you can go fast.
In this interview, Ali answers the 10 questions every founder should face before scaling.
00:00 Intro
01:55 How did you learn to scale?
02:54 What was the hardest part of scaling?
03:53 How do you get ahead of the hard part?
07:23 Granola, the AI meeting assistant
08:35 How do you build a team that scales?
09:59 How do you grow leaders as your team scales?
12:21 How does your role change as you scale?
13:11 How do you scale what only the founders know?
14:28 How do you keep driving impact as the team grows?
16:14 What’s the most common scaling mistake?
17:10 How is AI changing the way you scale?
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