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How Does Jeanne Grosser Sort Founder Feedback?
Jeanne Grosser sorts a founder's small complaints by looking for a repeat pattern. A single misplaced semicolon can wait while she stays on work meant to build a billion-dollar business. Bad grammar called out in emails three times in two weeks counts as a systemic problem, a sign the group sucks at grammar.
She gets good at signaling that she is on it and will act, then stays with the larger build and leaves the semicolon for the fullness of time. The test is signal versus noise. A pattern can show a flaw in her broader understanding of the work, or a topic the founder cares about deeply that she may still treat as a P2. They either talk directly about why the founder treats the point as a P0 while she treats it as a P2 and agree to disagree, or they check whether the point is really important.
Receiving feedback like that is not always easy, and the habit runs past founders alone. She gets uppity about her own set of things, not at the same order of magnitude. She tries to keep them thematic, know when to let stuff go, and make the behavior predictable. In her view, the team would largely say there is a set of things.
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