startups
These small pocket of people who work together repeatedly really matter. – Elad Gil Elad Gil, a renowned investor and advisor, shares his valuable insights garnered from two decades in Silicon Valley. His experience spans across many prominent companies like Airbnb, Airtable, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Gusto, Notion, Pinterest, Stripe, and more.
startups
Investor relations is not a finance job, it is a sales and service job. – Sanjeev Bikhchandani Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of Naukri.com, and Kunal Shah, founder of CRED, engage in a deep-dive conversation on the art of governance and investment strategies in startups. Their discussion covers the importance of bootstrapping,
Negotiation
Now we’re at $8 million businesses. I was number 30 at Facebook and now I help run AppSumo.com, number one site online for software deals who do about $80 million a year, which is unreal. It started bootstrapped in a weekend.’ – Noah Kagan Noah Kagan, the CEO of
startups
‘Universities serve as important seedbeds for both teaching processes and research processes; hence their significance cannot be overstated.’ – Marc Andreessen In a deep dive into the state of higher education, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen explore the crisis facing universities and discuss potential solutions for improvement. They highlight the need
Leadership
‘The blend [between sales and marketing] couldn’t be more relevant today because of the buyer. When on an inbound lead to your business, the seller now gets 9% of that buyer’s time to evaluate whether they’re going to go with you or not.’ – Sean Murray Sean Murray,
Investing
‘The key for looking at first-time entrepreneurs is identifying somebody that you have chemistry with, that you have back and forth from, that they can learn from you, you’re learning from them.’ – Adam Fisher Adam Fisher, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, shares his insights on the evolution of
Career Growth
‘But it exists on this weird spectrum of giving up structure. So there’s a balancing system here because when you have too much flexibility, your consistency goes out the window. It’s a lot harder to motivate yourself.’ – Jemma Sbeg Jemma Sbeg, a former corporate consultant turned full-time podcaster,
Investing
‘This is the year that the shit’s hitting the fan because you can only extend runway so much, and it doesn’t mean much if you’re not growing.’ – Ed Sim Ed Sim (Founder and Managing Partner at Boldstart Ventures) and Jamin Ball (a Partner at Altimeter Capital) explore
Building Teams
At this point, Samsara is at quite a bit of scale so we’re a public company now. The current job description in my opinion is to be building the company not for today’s scale but actually for scale 3 to 5 years from now. – Sanjit Biswas Sanjit Biswas,
startups
‘Luck’ is when preparation meets opportunity. Luck plays a significant role but if you’re not prepared to recognize an opportunity when it comes up or you’re not prepared for it, you’re not taking full advantage of the luck that’s made its way to you. – Sam Corcos
Building Teams
Don’t let yourself be held back by these fake limitations. Don’t believe this idea that there’s some magic with like one business person plus one tech person equals startup win. – Dalton Caldwell In a deep dive into the dynamics of startup co-founder relationships, Dalton Caldwell and Michael
Masters of AI
You’d work to explain [to investors] that you were a tech company and there are other tech companies that happen to be in life sciences or in healthcare but were being built like tech companies and that was the opportunity. – Sean Duffy Sean Duffy, the co-founder and CEO of