Jason Brown
12 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2017 by Jason Brown · said 10 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (5), Mamoon Hamid (2), Sean Flynn (1), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (1), Angela Strange (1)
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2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- 20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- 20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Jason Brown, oldest first
Apr 28, 2017 negative
Brown: Candidates sourced through executive recruiters suffer from adverse selection
“There's just a huge adverse selection out there. Any candidate that is coming to you through a recruiter is they might be good, but they're not the absolute best candidates. The absolute best candidates are never looking for a job. Those are the people that ge…”
Apr 28, 2017 negative
Brown: Bank of America's mobile app is confusing and overly complex
“Specifically in finance, you open up any big bank app, and I have an MBA in finance, and half the time I'm like, what the hell am I supposed to do with this thing? Like, I mean, especially the Bank of America app, like, literally, I have no idea what's going o…”
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017
Brown interviewed 30 bank executives over four months for Head of Credit
“I spent four months. I personally talked to 30 directors and vice Presidents at Capital One, HSBC, Citi, all the big banks, and I kept pushing and pushing until I ended up finding a guy whose name is also Jason, and he's just this incredible genius, top of his…”
Apr 28, 2017 negative
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017 positive
Brown: Recruiting is the single most important lever for startup success
“Assuming that you have a good market and a great idea, I believe that the number one lever you have to succeed is recruiting, meaning the quality of the people that you have on the team, how passionate they are about what you're doing, and their willingness to…”
Apr 28, 2017
Brown: Early-stage CEOs should adopt a bimodal time allocation strategy
“I want to comment specifically in the first couple of years of the startups, because maybe it's a different once you get further out there, but I adhere to a bimodal distribution of my time. So I try to pick one thing, one massive levered thing in the company …”
Nov 29, 2019 neutral
Jason Brown: CEOs must formally adjourn board meetings before leaving the room
“Actually formally ending the board meeting. And that's actually important because you don't want to leave the board room as the CEO without formally ending the board meeting. Cause in a really adverse scenario, if the board meeting is still running, things cou…”
Nov 29, 2019 positive
Brown: Founder experience builds critical intuition for high-leverage moments
“What I believe first time founders really struggle with is sifting between, let's say that the half a million minutes that don't matter and the 10 that do in the year, and that 10,000 hours or 20,000 hours of practice of doing it over and over really gives you…”
Nov 29, 2019 negative
Jason Brown: Generic pattern matching by board members is unhelpful to founders
“When the company is facing issue X, do not say, oh, I saw another company that had a similar issue, and they did Y. And the reason is, is that that is not contextualized to your company, your industry, the resources you have, the capabilities, your knowledge, …”
Nov 29, 2019 neutral
Board members should highlight trade-offs rather than simply agreeing
“As a board member, when another board member says something, do not agree nor necessarily disagree, but try to point out either the other side of the probability distribution on what they're suggesting, because no matter what, there's no way that what they're …”