COO

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 18, 2020 by Austen Allred · across every show →

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Sep 18, 2020
Insight
The COO Role Must Be Customized Around the Founder's Weaknesses
“COO is one of those roles where there's not like a single COO. It's very much a custom mold to what the CEO is and what the founder is and finding someone whose strengths are the founder's weaknesses and vice versa, more so than it is just Hire a COO off the s…”
Austen Allred Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 20:36 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Insight
Choi: COO Role Is Clearing Operational Environment for Product to Ship Fast
“COO to me means I am here to create the absolute best Environment for product and engineering to ship everything they need to ship as quickly as possible, because we are a product and engineering led company.”
Emilie Choi Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 26:24 20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
Nov 26, 2022
Disclosure
Katzenberg realized a COO hire was a mistake within two days
“I've had things where I hired a COO of my company, and the day after he arrived, right, two days after he arrived, I went, oh my god, this is not going to work. I, and right, and like, I mean, literally, it was a big headline news in the business, and you know…”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 30:58 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 21, 2023
Disclosure
Harry Stebbings Has His COO Fire Employees Due to Personal Aversion
“I suck at firing so much so that I've had my COO fire people because I don't want to do it.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 10:57 Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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