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ByKate Rockwood

This story appears in theNovember 2016issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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Tracy Young at PlanGrid’s San Francisco headquarters.

Tracy Young and her cofounders knew the construction business and computer engineering, but they didn't know squat aboutorganizational management. So when they launched their startup,PlanGrid, which digitizes blueprints, they "decided to run PlanGrid with no titles and a flat management structure. We were just going to build this business together," says Young. That worked fine for a while, but then…

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