Guillaume Pousaz

9 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 8, 2021 by Guillaume Pousaz · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Apr 8, 2021
Insight
CEOs should focus on five-year roadmaps, not two-year execution
“I basically have, like, three roadmaps, a two-year roadmap, a five-year roadmap, and a ten-year roadmap. The two-year roadmap is more or less decided already now, so it's basically executing against this, and I'm not involved. And I make my decisions on the fi…”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 8:34 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pousaz still flies economy class with his family
“We fly an economy with the whole family.”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 15:41 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pousaz limits all meetings to 15, 30, or 45 minutes
“If you want like, you know, factual tips, I have three types of meeting. I have the 15 minute meeting, the 30 minutes meeting, and the 45 minutes meeting. You have to choose between these three, and I always keep 15 minutes in each hour to do emails and WhatsA…”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 25:59 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021
Disclosure
Pousaz relies on gut feeling and instinct over formal decision frameworks
“I don't have a framework. I make a lot of gut feel decisions and instinctive decisions, and by that, what I mean is that, of course, as a CEO now, I mean, I have a CEO office, I have a great leadership team, and I do have access to data, but I don't think that…”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 18:29 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021 neutral
Insight
Pousaz conducts weekly meeting audits to eliminate non-essential commitments
“What I do at the end of the week, every single week with the team that actually helps me manage my time, is that we raise the meetings. Was that a good meeting? Yes or no? Was that a meeting where I needed to be there? If I didn't need to be there, then we kil…”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 26:15 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021
Disclosure
Pousaz relies on a group of mentors with no equity in Checkout.com
“Fundamentally I have a good group of mentors that really like look after me, that are people that don't have any vested equity or equity in the company.”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 11:42 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Checkout.com has never spent a single dollar of its raised venture capital
“We have never spent a single dollar of the money that we have raised. So I mean, all the money is sitting on the balance sheet.”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 7:33 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021 neutral
Insight
Pousaz uses three email labels: urgent, end of day, end of week
“But I have three labels only in Gmail. I have urgent, end of the day, end of the week. It's these three labels and the assistants, they file the emails. And urgent is what I do every single 15 minutes and every hour. End of the day is what I do when I finish m…”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 26:46 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
Apr 8, 2021
Insight
Executive performance is defined by the ratio of good decisions to speed
“But it's the ratio of good decision and the average weighted time that you take them that is actually the key.”
Guillaume Pousaz Apr 8, 2021 ▶ 19:35 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
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