Founder Playbook
Bootstrapping
“she came up with the title director of miscellaneous um which completely changed my life... do not change a single thing we need to leverage this like put her in all the teams except for engineering and design um all the other teams put her in let her be the glue let her bring the thing that she can be the one that brings it all together”
Create a "Director of Miscellaneous" role to leverage the people who connect silos
When specialists in marketing, ops, finance, and product can't talk to each other, the bottleneck isn't any one specialism — it's the absence of a connector. Invent a "Director of Miscellaneous" or "chief glue" role explicitly for someone whose strength is bridging vocabularies and surfacing the cross-team problem. Don't try to flatten them into a specialist box — their value is exactly that they don't fit one.
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Milly Tamati
Generalist WorldFounder of Generalist World — bootstrapped paid community of 400+ generalists across 20 countries, built from a Scottish island with 178 residents. Annual subscription model, profitable enough to fund a small team and a calm lifestyle.
The Bootstrapped Founder
Milly Tamati — The Power and Potential of Generalists· 15:45