Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. At first, a startup often lacks resources but has a handful of driven people who know and trust each other to take ownership. As the company grows, they become the main driving force — leaders who build teams and departments. As growth accelerates and more people join, it becomes harder to ensure that the same leadership ethos keeps the company agile and goal-oriented across departments. Last year, Oxylabs celebrated its 10th birthday and the journey that made us one of the market leaders in public web data scraping. We brought together over 45 leaders across departments and experience levels to understand which leadership traits mattered most throughout this journey. The learnings from these consultations were distilled into seven leadership principles. While coming from the fast-paced data industry, they should also prove valuable to all leaders seeking business and personal growth across industries.…