Astro

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7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 2, 2018 by Andy Pflaum · said 19 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Feb 2, 2018 negative
Insight
Paid user acquisition should remain a small fraction of overall growth
“We try to never let it go beyond a certain portion, a very kind of low fraction of our overall attainment of new users. If it goes too high For any brief period of time, then that suggests that we're out of balance and we're not kind of focused on the right ar…”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 16:23 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
Feb 2, 2018 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Astro will be a profitable, independent company within five years
“And in five years, we expect to be a thriving, profitable, independent company that's known for making its customers very focused, very productive, and happy.”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 26:07 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
Feb 2, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Astro paid a contractor above market rate to stop their moonlighting business
“We found and recruited an excellent contractor to work with our team based outside of the Bay Area, and he worked with us as a consultant for a while until we hired him on full time, but we made sure when we hired him on full time that we were compensating him…”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 11:29 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
Feb 2, 2018
Insight
Narrow pitch propositions outperform broad visions in startup fundraising
“I think that the primary thing that we would change is consistent with how you want to run your business, which is the more narrow you can have of a focus on what your proposition is, the better that people can understand it and give you feedback on it, and th…”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 21:36 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
Feb 2, 2018
Insight
Founders cannot get good investor advice if forced to constantly pitch
“We know we can't get the best insights and the best advice. If I'm worried about with each conversation, having to sort of sell them or pitch them on the status of the company or what our next plans are, want to be able to have honest, open discussions about t…”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 19:25 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
Feb 2, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Astro sourced its last two hires via Hired.com and Handshake
“Hiring services like hired.com and handshake. Our last two hires each came from those two services that previously we would have had to work through recruiter under a different and more expensive paid model.”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 14:10 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
Feb 2, 2018 negative
Opinion
Workplace communications remain a chaotic mess for enterprise users
“We wanted to do it in the space of workplace communications, which we thought was still something of a chaotic mess, frankly, for most users in the workplace.”
Andy Pflaum Feb 2, 2018 ▶ 5:57 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
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