Barry McCarthy
9 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2021 by Daniel Ek · said 10 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (4), Gautam Gupta (4), Woody Marshall (1), Daniel Ek (1)
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2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 4 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Barry McCarthy, oldest first
Mar 8, 2021 positive
Dec 20, 2022
Corporate problem-solving often fails because leaders misinterpret underlying root-cause data
“My experience is that oftentimes the way that people articulate the problem and the solution is relatively uninformed because they have misinterpreted the underlying data or they haven't done the data analytics rigorously enough to understand the full scope of…”
Dec 20, 2022 neutral
CEOs should let domain executives own decisions except during rare enterprise pivots
“So if you're going to surround yourself with really talented people and ask them to play at a high level, you need to give them permission and authority to actually own their decisions. And maybe once in a blue moon, you might decide that it's time to move to …”
Dec 20, 2022 negative
Dec 20, 2022
Corporate turnarounds demand constant firefighting and extreme emotional resilience from CEOs
“And in a turnaround, almost nothing's working well. And so you're like a constant firefighting mode. And it's just one mess after another is, you know, arriving on your desk that needs to be dealt with. And you need to both have the intellectual horsepower and…”
Dec 20, 2022
Dec 20, 2022
Dec 20, 2022
Acquirers must set walk-away price limits before M&A negotiations trigger emotions
“I will say by way of answering the question that it's super helpful sort of before you start down a path. To try to define for yourself what success looks like. So, so when you get there, you know it, or when you're falling short, you know it, just like if you…”
Dec 20, 2022
Barry McCarthy initially negotiated for Peloton's COO role before pursuing CEO
“It was Daniel and a very successful venture capitalist who'd been on the Netflix board for a long time named Tim Haley. Both of us counsel I had sought and my wife together got me thinking about the CEO role because initially I was talking to Peloton about a C…”