Speed: Moving Fast Towards What Matters
Some leaders think speed is simply about working harder or moving faster. It isn’t. The speed that matters is Mission Speed: the rate at which your mission advances in the direction you’ve chosen.
As teams scale, that speed can quietly erode. Decisions pile up, energy becomes diffused, and everyone stays busy, yet less gets done than it should.
In this limited-series podcast, Keith Lucas—former Roblox CPO/CTO, author, and startup advisor—unpacks how the best operators move fast. Guests include the founders of Roblox, Instrumental, Vera, Divi, Splendid Games, and Blue Rose Research.
Speed: Moving Fast Towards What Matters
Latest Episodes
Speed is Urgent, Not Reckless: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky on Scaling Speed at Instrumental
In this episode of Speed, host Keith Lucas — who worked alongside Anna at Instrumental from 2018 to 2020 — asks her what it really takes to move fast without breaking things. She talks about pairing conviction with open debate, the "10...
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Speed Is Discipline: Jesse Stinebring on Why Speed and Quality Aren't a Trade-off
Jesse Stinebring has spent his career solving a problem most people assume is unsolvable: getting speed and quality out of the same system. In this episode of Speed, host Keith Lucas talks with Jesse — co-founder and CEO of Blue Rose R...
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Speed Is a Vector: Yaniv Bernstein on Moving Fast in the Right Direction
In this episode of Speed, host Keith Lucas talks with Yaniv Bernstein about what's actually changed for founders building with AI, why taking on technical debt aggressively is often the right call, how Vera balances speed with the trus...
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Speed Is Time To Evidence: Matt Curtis on Building Speed Into Games
In this episode of Speed, Matt Curtis joins host Keith Lucas to redefine what speed actually means: not raw execution velocity, but the time between a decision and the evidence that validates it. He shares the three habits behind it — ...
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Speed Is Intention: Building Fast Without Breaking Trust with Harold Hughes
Harold Hughes has built companies at two very different speeds: hand-drawing wireframes on paper a decade ago, and shipping AI-generated MVPs in an afternoon today. In this episode of Speed, host Keith Lucas talks with Harold — founder...
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