Why do companies succeed and others don’t? At Doctrine we believe it’s all centered around the people that then build incredible technology and go-to-market strategy. Here is our contrarian people philosophy at Doctrine. — More principles and less rules as we scale As companies grow, they have a natural tendency to add rules to try to control the organization. Detailed and numerous rules and processes are supposedly a way to manage the growing complexity.

The more a civilization grows the more it needs the law to organize social interactions. Legal information is therefore following the exponential growth of the world GDP. Throughout the ages, people tried to organize the law using different mediums and intellectual structures. Today the inflation of norms is such that we need a new system to organize the world’s legal information. It will change forever the way we access, understand and practice the law.

I have recently been invited to The Family to talk about the role of the CEO. As the CEO of Doctrine.com, I spend a fair amount of time researching and reading about the role of the CEO. I eventually aggregated all this knowledge into a single doc. Several people asked…