Ben Rubin
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2020 by Ben Rubin · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- 20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional
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Aug 21, 2020 negative
Ben Rubin failed to bridge early and late-stage cultures at Houseparty
“Bridging between those two cultures of the people you hire as you're iterating and pivoting a lot and to the people you hired after you started the immense growth, it's hard culture to bridge. And I don't think I've done a good job there”
Aug 21, 2020 neutral
Board meetings should be discussion platforms, not decision-making arenas
“I think, obviously, you don't want to surprise your board in stuff like this during the board meeting. I think board meetings are not for, or rarely, or really when she'd hit the fanart to make decision, most of the time, board should be used as discussion pla…”
Aug 21, 2020 positive
Peter Fenton gave Ben Rubin a Benchmark credit card to explore ideas
“Basically, Peter Fenton was, hire who you need to hire, start hacking around, there is Benchmark credit card, and I trust you, and like, obviously, this sounds a little bit unfair, because it sounds super casual, but we had a plan of This is the space we're go…”
Aug 21, 2020 positive
Aug 21, 2020 negative
Standard growth playbooks fail on company-specific retention issues
“The tools that you have are probably good to inform 80% of your decision, but there's going to be a situation in which only you can actually come up with the infrastructure And the tooling to understand your problem. You're not going to be able to solve that p…”