03. TOOLS FOR SCALING THE COMPANY WHAT’S AHEAD ‘Give Away Your Legos’ And Other Commandments For Scaling Startups Molly Graham is something of a scaling expert. As the architect of Facebook’s culture, former COO of Quip and former VP of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, she’s all too familiar with the ambiguity, chaos and stress that comes with doubling or tripling your team every six months. “Scaling companies and teams is crazy hard —and the emotions you feel when new people are coming in and taking over pieces of your job aren’t that different from how a kid feels when they have to share their Legos,” Graham says. In this article, she shares what early employees and startup founders can do to make it easier on themselves — and how we can all get better at giving away our Legos. 52