Kirk Miller, Dragonfly Testimonial

Going from founder-led, from $0 to $1M, from five employ­ees to 10 employ­ees, we were work­ing as a lot of heroes. That worked great when we had five peo­ple, 10 peo­ple, but once we got to 15 and 20 peo­ple, it began to break down, and we were real­ly strug­gling with the inter­nal dynam­ics of our team­mates.

Being part of this group has giv­en me the con­fi­dence to do many of the things that I’ve already had in mind to a degree, but was­n’t sure about, and just lis­ten­ing to Vic’s crys­tal-clear expla­na­tion of all of these indi­vid­ual top­ics, and putting that togeth­er into a whole sys­tem, it’s like a breath of fresh air.

I think the biggest impact for myself has just been rec­og­niz­ing that as a founder, I have so much just trib­al knowl­edge that’s inside my head, and it does­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean that every­one else knows that.

So real­ly focus­ing on clear, crisp com­mu­ni­ca­tion with my team has been the num­ber one thing that I think I’ve tak­en away, over­all, just in terms of my per­son­al growth. With my team, it has brought new clar­i­ty to them, rather than assum­ing we’re going after A, when we’re real­ly going after B.

It has just brought a lot of clar­i­ty and focus to our sales team, to our account man­age­ment team, to our engi­neer­ing team. Being part of this group is prob­a­bly the best thing that I have done since I found­ed Drag­on­fly.

The veloc­i­ty at which we’re climb­ing this moun­tain that we’re on has just begun to accel­er­ate, and it’s so excit­ing pick­ing up the pace, and start­ing to tru­ly make real progress to our vision.