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George Kurtz

9 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2021 by Sameer Gandhi · said 48 times in 7 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Sep 2, 2021
Disclosure
Accel told CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz to shop their term sheet
“Why don't you take my offer, my term sheet, you have it in your back pocket. So when you have these other conversations, Go in knowing that your deal done already, and if someone comes along and offers you something much better, or you think they're additive t…”
Sameer Gandhi Sep 2, 2021 ▶ 24:56 20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
Oct 14, 2021 negative
Opinion
Kurtz calls competitor Cylance a one-trick pony, not a true platform
“A good example of that is silence. They shortcut it themselves to a better AV product, but they were one trick pony. They weren't a platform.”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 17:44 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021
Disclosure
Kurtz: CrowdStrike raised $25M Series A from Warburg Pincus off 25 slides
“I became an entrepreneur in residence at Warburg Pincus, got basically crown track off the ground, and wrote 25 slides, got twenty-five million bucks.”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 7:24 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021 bullish
What-if
Kurtz wishes he took loans to buy more early CrowdStrike equity
“I probably would have took out as many loans as I could have and put as much money of my own money in the deal as early as possible.”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 9:05 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021
Insight
CEOs must accept delegation once employee count surpasses personal knowledge
“At some point there, it's, you have to trust you got the right people, because you haven't interviewed them. You have to accept that you're not going to know everybody. You're not going to know their names.”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 20:58 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021
Insight
George Kurtz: Part ways immediately once you know an employee won't work out
“If you know the person is not going to work out, you know, you give them a hug and you part ways and you don't wait around.”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 26:30 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021
Assertion Supported
Kurtz met 100 global customers in 100 days post-CrowdStrike IPO
“On Monday, we're going to start the 100 by 100. We're taking one day off and we're doing the 100 by 100. He said, well, what is that? And I said, we're going to meet a hundred customers in a hundred days, wherever they are. I flew all over the world to meet a …”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 23:53 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Kurtz: CrowdStrike built early global remote workforce around top talent
“I focused on getting the top 20 people wherever they were in the world, and we didn't really care about having them in an office. And we really, I would say, pioneered a lot of, pioneered, maybe that's the wrong word, but we were ahead of the curve in terms of…”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 6:13 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
Oct 14, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kurtz: Equal equity split among six co-founders failed at Foundstone
“The first company was like six partners, you know, we're all even, and that, that didn't work out so well. Some people did more work than others.”
George Kurtz Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 6:01 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
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