Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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18 published records
01 / evaluation
“Many startups I've invested in like Sprig, Ellamy and ClassDojo use Rippling because it's a force multiplier for lean teams, helping them eliminate major headaches and operate their business more efficiently.”
02 / belief
“I think that's extra important because somebody will do that probably and compete with you and put you out of business, and it's better that you do that first.”
03 / belief
“I heard of cases that you basically say our underlining assumptions didn't work out and our thesis is wrong and therefore we would like to return the investors their money.”
04 / belief
“I agree. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And this is pretty much everything in your life.”
05 / belief
“You actually have this quote I'll read that I think is a good summary of why this is so important.”
06 / belief
“I want to come back to something you said that I think is so important but so hard, which is to act fast.”
07 / commitment
“We decided in the management meeting that this is what we're going to do. And if push come to shovel, then we will do the next step and the next step and the next step.”
08 / belief
“I think you even said that, it created so many crisis across so many companies you were involved with, helped you realize a lot of companies and founders are just not prepared.”
09 / evaluation
“The core part of your advice on crisis, it's always the founders fault if things don't work out.”
10 / commitment
“End of the day, recent years have demonstrated major significant crisises throughout the world, from Covid to interest rate, to inflation, to wars. And then I realized that wait a minute, this is something that I haven't spoke about during my first book and it's time to write a new edition to that or a new chapter that will be added into the new release.”
11 / recommendation
“Now you might want to decide, no, we're going to keep on running full steam ahead until we hit the wall because by that we increase the likelihood that we will have enough velocity to bypass the wall.”
12 / evaluation
“We had the same thing with Waze, because when we started Waze was free and it was the only one that was offering turn-by-turn navigation free.”
13 / evaluation
“Because the other alternative is basically say, "Wait a minute, all of my underlining assumptions have gone, they are wrong.”
14 / prediction
“Way smaller. So what happened here is that you realize that, okay, this is not forever, so ski is going to come back but we don't know how long and therefore we assume that it's going to be for two seasons until it's coming back, until 2022.”
15 / prediction
“The second one, which is even more significant, is that you lost product market fit. And that might happen, it might happen because of regulations, because of competition, because of something dramatic happened that there is no more value into your product.”
16 / recommendation
“One other thing that you might want to do is actually tell the people that we will be running out of cash in two month. And number one, I want you to help me even if we run out of cash because there are good chances that we eventually will be able to raise capital and recover that.”
17 / recommendation
“So the entire journey from scratch. And if you answer yes to all of those, so you have the very significant value proposition and you think that you have something that is going to accelerate you dramatically because of the know-how, the technology, the team, then the next thing that you're going to do is validate it with the team.”
18 / evaluation
“" No, this is how you create dissatisfaction with the team and you would reduce costs because some people would leave because of that, not because of lack of coffee, but because of inability to determine and to make hard decisions.”