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Gokul Rajaram

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Playing to Win

“Playing to Win, How Strategy Really Works. It's a book called Playing to Win and the subtitle is How Strategy Really Works. Very good book.”

Lenny's Podcast · 13 Jun 2022

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02 / observation

If the founder is able to and willing to play the role of product manager, the problem is with eight to 10 engineers, if the founder is doing other things besides playing the role of a product manager, then the eight to 10% engineering team is not being cared for and fed.

“If the founder is able to and willing to play the role of product manager, the problem is with eight to 10 engineers, if the founder is doing other things besides playing the role of a product manager, then the eight to 10% engineering team is not being cared for and fed.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

I think Zoom makes it harder, but it's very important to understand what else is going on at the company.

“I think Zoom makes it harder, but it's very important to understand what else is going on at the company.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

I think unless you know the founders very, very, very well, joining a very early-stage, early-stage company is, especially now for the next one or two years, it's going to be a brutal market out there.

“I think unless you know the founders very, very, very well, joining a very early-stage, early-stage company is, especially now for the next one or two years, it's going to be a brutal market out there.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

I think the best founders early on trust their engineering teams and product development teams to solve problems and more clearly present the problem to them and help them.

“I think the best founders early on trust their engineering teams and product development teams to solve problems and more clearly present the problem to them and help them.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

I'm very nervous about because I think no one person has all the skills needed to start a company.

“I'm very nervous about because I think no one person has all the skills needed to start a company.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / belief

I think if you are interested in crypto, Coinbase has such a diverse set of things that they work on that it is literally you can work on almost any part of crypto from NFTs to wallets to custody to infrastructure.

“I think if you are interested in crypto, Coinbase has such a diverse set of things that they work on that it is literally you can work on almost any part of crypto from NFTs to wallets to custody to infrastructure.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / belief

What value are they adding? And I think just number one thing you have to do is you have to, just because you hired a PM doesn't, you can't abdicate that responsibility of understanding how the team is doing.

“What value are they adding? And I think just number one thing you have to do is you have to, just because you hired a PM doesn't, you can't abdicate that responsibility of understanding how the team is doing.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / prediction

I think especially nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of consumer companies challenged because they relied on Facebook or paid media to drive customer acquisition.

“I think especially nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of consumer companies challenged because they relied on Facebook or paid media to drive customer acquisition.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / preference

And don't just like basically just write things. That's why I think writing is so powerful because it shows the world.

“And don't just like basically just write things. That's why I think writing is so powerful because it shows the world.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / evaluation

I think Stripe, for example, is famous for not hiring PMs because I think when your audience is developers, they know their audience really well.

“I think Stripe, for example, is famous for not hiring PMs because I think when your audience is developers, they know their audience really well.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / recommendation

I think great careers are built by knowing a lot of people, doing great work so they know and want you on their teams and just waiting for serendipity and then seizing it and jumping.

“I think great careers are built by knowing a lot of people, doing great work so they know and want you on their teams and just waiting for serendipity and then seizing it and jumping.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / preference

i started angel investing in 2007 15 years ago and like many people i started because my friends and colleagues were leaving to start companies this is when i was at google and they were leaving to start companies so literally without doing much i just wanted to support them because i'd worked with them and so i just put a small check into the companies and some failed some did really well but ultimately i realized that for me investing is all about supporting people much more so than companies themselves.

“i started angel investing in 2007 15 years ago and like many people i started because my friends and colleagues were leaving to start companies this is when i was at google and they were leaving to start companies so literally without doing much i just wanted to support them because i'd worked with them and so i just put a small check into the companies and some failed some did really well but ultimately i realized that for me investing is all about supporting people much more so than companies themselves.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / recommendation

I think putting in the process upfront is really important because you can flounder around and then just spending a full four or five hours upfront talking to a few folks, coming to the good process.

“I think putting in the process upfront is really important because you can flounder around and then just spending a full four or five hours upfront talking to a few folks, coming to the good process.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / preference

i enjoy it i think the thing is i enjoy it because i have been a founder myself not a very successful one so one of the things i love hearing i always start to tell me your founding story and every founder likes to tell the financing and that's where i listen closely for authenticity to understand how they met each other the two founders hopefully multiple founders how they knew each other and how they came up with this idea that they're going after versus and what problem they're tackling and so A, I have a standard set of questions I ask so that way I can spend my time not thinking of questions to ask, but just listening and just learning.

“i enjoy it i think the thing is i enjoy it because i have been a founder myself not a very successful one so one of the things i love hearing i always start to tell me your founding story and every founder likes to tell the financing and that's where i listen closely for authenticity to understand how they met each other the two founders hopefully multiple founders how they knew each other and how they came up with this idea that they're going after versus and what problem they're tackling and so A, I have a standard set of questions I ask so that way I can spend my time not thinking of questions to ask, but just listening and just learning.”
Speaker
Gokul Rajaram
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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