Hubert Palan
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 29, 2021 by Hubert Palan · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Jan 29, 2021
Palan: Productboard should have spent capital faster instead of staying frugal
“For me, it's been a challenge. Like, how to realize that maybe you can spend more and move faster, rather than be frugal and just, you know, try things slowly. And that's one of the things I would probably change looking back.”
Jan 29, 2021 positive
Palan: Sharing bad news filters out mercenary employees lacking mission conviction
“I still like to err on the side of, let's just tell people that things are not going great, and hope that we can fix it. And the people that are gonna leave are likely the people who don't believe in the mission of the company, and who are there maybe because,…”
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Hubert Palan: Founder conviction must be an informed, systematically validated gut feeling
“And the conviction shouldn't be just like a uninformed gut feeling. It needs to be very much informed gut feeling. And you need to be able to challenge all the inputs that go into the, you know, the convictions.”
Jan 29, 2021
Palan: Resource-constrained backgrounds make founders more frugal and resilient
“And then also, because you have this, you're super frugal. You know, you're coming from a world where you had to do everything. You need to figure out everything. You're like, you didn't have the funds. And so the early days, and it's kind of a double-edged sw…”
Jan 29, 2021 negative
Palan: Horizontal tools like Notion fail to deliver for scaling startups
“I still believe that there needs to be specialized solutions for highly specialized use cases. And just like with Excel, like Microsoft Access, I don't know whether you remember, remember, but you would build your CRM in a spreadsheet or in Microsoft Access, r…”
Jan 29, 2021 positive
Palan: Hiding startup metrics wastes top talent's problem-solving capacity
“If you're not sharing things that are not working, if you're not transparent about the performance, if you don't talk about the inconvenient information that you just lost a big customer, or that, you know, the churn is high, or just in general, the friction i…”
Jan 29, 2021
Palan: Scaling depends more on founder flexibility than the initial insight
“And so in my mind, you know, while you might have the early insights, you actually don't know whether it is the insight that's gonna be the foundation of the large, big company that you will scale. And so to me, it's much more about the flexibility of the foun…”
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021 positive
Palan: A startup's five-year vision is not what it should build today
“You have to have a bold vision, but the bold vision, you need to have the insight that what is it that you're gonna be in five years is not what you should be building today, and that's the key of the strategic perspective, and what's the first milestone, the …”
Jan 29, 2021 positive
Palan: Backchannel VC investors specifically on how they handle rough quarters
“As a founder, that's what I ask about. If I'm raising it around, I'm asking about an investor, and I'm asking for, you know, backchanneling, like, what were they like during the rough periods? Like, what happened when there were quarters flat, and like, what w…”
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Palan: Realizing tech leaders lack fixed formulas makes founders bolder
“I think that you kind of idealize it from, you know, externally, and you think that everything is thought out, and then when you realize that it isn't, when you kind of get thrown into it, and you ask, you know, people that you respect, and that you thought wa…”