Molly Graham on Scaling Through Chaos, the Line Between Strong Culture and a Cult, and Why Delegation Is an Identity Problem

Elevate with Robert Glazer · Oct 13, 2026 · 58m

Molly Graham⁠ has spent nearly two decades inside companies during their fastest and messiest years of growth. She started at the Council on Foreign Relations and as a wilderness instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School before moving into technology, where her team at Google went from 25 people to 125 in nine months. She then spent nearly five years at Facebook building the culture, compensation, and performance systems that carried it from 500 employees to 5,500, was COO of Quip, the productivity startup that sold to Salesforce for $750 million, and ran operations at the Chan…