Grant LaFontaine
17 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2022 by Grant LaFontaine · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2022 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- 20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- 20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Grant LaFontaine, oldest first
Mar 23, 2022 positive
Mar 23, 2022 negative
Startup Founders Should Never Engage in Angel Investing
“Don't do it. Never. I think there are founders I know who do it, and some of them have, like, reasonably good logical reasons for why they do it. I think if you're a founder, it's incredibly important that you fully optimize the success of your company.”
Mar 23, 2022 positive
Mar 23, 2022
Openly Roasting the CEO Builds High-Trust Executive Leadership Teams
“He'll kick it off with me where it'd be like, all right, you can go and roast Grant on all of the bad things he's doing. Give him like the toughest feedback you can give him. I'll sit there and listen to it. And most of the time it's accurate. And so I'll ackn…”
Mar 23, 2022 positive
Mar 23, 2022
Organizational People Conflicts Cannot Be Solved Using First Principles
“Like all the people problems that you run into, they're not like the business problems where you can work back from first principles. People are really like complicated. When you start to run those conflicts and getting like organizations to work well together…”
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Mar 23, 2022 negative
Building Consumer Products Requires Deep Empathy Rather Than Metric Formulas
“Building great consumer companies is not a mathematical equation. It's like when I go and look around, like all of the materials about how do I build product? How do I think about this? There's so much stuff on retention and cohorts and metrics and this and th…”
Mar 23, 2022 bullish
Mar 23, 2022 negative
Mar 23, 2022
User Empathy Enables Fast, High-Quality Product Decisions Without Large Datasets
“If you are really grounded and empathetic to your users, you can make high quality decisions Without huge amounts of data, ultimately what that allows you to do is speed everything up. Add value to users exceptionally fast.”
Mar 23, 2022