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Books, apps, and tools
book / uses
“So, I found I lost the habit of reading as I started to get more and more stressed with my startup. And so I would listen to audiobooks here and there, but the most recent book I read is a book called Nuclear War: A Scenario, and it's a very much a nonfiction and scared the shit out of me.”
other / likes
“I bet I would love to know that younger generations that are watching this, what they may think, they may hate it, but I love 28 Years Later.”
book / recommends
“So, I found I lost the habit of reading as I started to get more and more stressed with my startup. And so I would listen to audiobooks here and there, but the most recent book I read is a book called Nuclear War: A Scenario, and it's a very much a nonfiction and scared the shit out of me. So, if you like nightmares, it'll be beautiful bedtime reading.”
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5 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“Now obviously it's fun to tell that once again to the idea of this brave Maverick move, and I won't discount the fact that we were brave, but we were coming from a point of having nothing to lose.”
02 / evaluation
“Everyone's valuation and revenue was through the roof and that hit a lot of problems in a lot of these companies and we had five quarters of success of sequential decline in our net new ARR and we were about to hit $0 net new ARR which means we would've in negative growth territory.”
03 / evaluation
“A lot of things that were controversial for this prior crowd. And then I designed these quarterly performance processes where not only would you get a mark or a grade for your performance against your goals that quarter, but you'd also get a score for your behavior against the values.”
04 / evaluation
“We've reduced the prices for a lot of customers just to give them way simpler pricing because surprise, surprise, when people feel like they have far simpler, more predictable, fairer pricing, they'll stick around longer and it creates so much more ease in the company and promotes a healthier relationship with the customer too.”
05 / evaluation
“We ran an anonymous employee survey, I think 15 or 16 months after I started aggressively working through the org and rebuilding the org and rebuilding the culture, and we had a 98 to 99% approval of management, leadership and new strategy.”