Kim Scott – Don’t Always Accept Funding Just Because It’s Been Offered

<p><strong>BIO: </strong>Kim Scott is the author of <em>Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity</em> and <em>Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, </em>and<em> Bullying to Build a Kick-ass Culture of Inclusivity</em>, and she is a co-founder of the company, Radical Candor.</p><p><strong>STORY: </strong>Kim got an idea and $2 million from a friend to build an app for her company Radical Candor. What Kim didn’t realize was that the app was doing the exact opposite of what Radical Candor aimed to do.</p><p><strong>LEARNING: </strong>Just because somebody offers you money doesn’t mean you should take it. Don’t throw good money after bad. Don’t grow for growth’s sake.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“If it’s too good to be true, keep asking questions before you jump.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Kim Scott</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimm4/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Kim Scott</strong></a> is the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/3GQunUe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity</em></a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3Wjkhke" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-ass Culture of Inclusivity</em></a>, and she is a co-founder of the company, <a href="https://www.radicalcandor.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Radical Candor</a>. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and, before that, led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google.</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>Kim had just finished writing <a href="https://amzn.to/3GQunUe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Radical Candor</em></a>, but it was going to be published a few months later. So she had some downtime. One time Kim was havi