Dave Clark

12 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2023 by Dave Clark · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Stretch goals deliver greater net gains than realistic targets
“Like your net gain of stretching farther is much better than setting something you think is a more realistic target.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 4:08 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Acquiring delivery startups does not add driver capacity
“The drivers work on almost all the platforms today or on many of the platforms today. So you're not really picking up capacity.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 17:29 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: US last-mile delivery requires five to six deliveries per hour
“If you're net averaging 20, 25 dollars an hour for, you know, a delivery or an hour for somebody who's doing deliveries in the US. You know, you really need to net You know, five or six deliveries an hour to get good scaled costs there.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 15:36 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Prioritize avoiding getting fired over seeking promotion
“I do first, I do the things that will get me fired. And second, I do the things that get me promoted. So like I do on a straight up prioritization mechanism, I have a similar structure to that, you know, but I have a more Amazon one way. What's going to get me…”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 11:39 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Hire for the job needed three to five years out
“And I think too many people look for somebody who's going to do what they're told. Like, you know, they want somebody who's going to fill the job of the now. And what I want is somebody who's gonna fill the job that's gonna be the job three years from now, or …”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 8:18 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Clark: Unscaled last-mile delivery startups will fail, not be acquired
“And the people without scale just won't make it. They'll go away. I don't expect a lot of acquisition, because there's not a lot of value in acquisition for those.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 17:05 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Top performers are simplifiers, possess grit, and are smart
“What I find to be most consistent is that the three biggest traits, and maybe in order, they're simplifiers they have great grit, and they're smart.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 5:23 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Clark: Amazon was late to ultra-fast shipping due to my hesitation
“Like things that we omitted, like I think we were late getting to the ultra fast shipping piece when we were at Amazon. And I think some of that was, you know, a decent amount of that was probably on me”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 12:51 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Grit cannot be simulated and requires real workload pressure
“You put them under load and see what happens. There's no simulation for it.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 7:11 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Clark: A generation of VCs lost money on last-mile delivery
“In my personal opinion, yes.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 15:15 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: Simplifiers shed 90% of complexity to focus on core innovation
“Almost all the problems that you think are too complicated to do are like Things that aren't too complicated to do, and 10% of the thing is. And they quickly shed the 90, and they know exactly what to go to, that, where the real innovation or the real hard pie…”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 6:48 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 17, 2023
Insight
Clark: High-intensity work blinds people to their own overextension
“You know, when you're in the shit, you often don't realize that you're in the shit. You know, if you're just, if you're working until 11 o'clock night, you don't, you kind of don't even recognize that you're doing it to a degree, or that you don't recognize th…”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 0:00 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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