Jean-Charles Samoulian

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Apr 3, 2020
Insight
High regulatory barriers create prime opportunities for startup innovation
“Markets with high barrier to entry, they are likely to be places where you can make a huge difference because Innovation is so hard because of regulation that people don't even try.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 7:36 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Insight
Any tech organization failing to ship weekly has an underlying problem
“If you don't ship something in one week, I think you have a problem as an organization.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 27:14 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Assertion Supported
Expliseat developed the lightest economy aircraft seat, cutting weight by 50%
“We developed the lightest aircraft chair for economic class, dividing by more than two the weight of a seat, which generates massive fuel savings and massive CO₂ savings.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 4:53 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Disclosure
Jean-Charles Samoulian disables all phone and laptop notifications for focus
“So for me, for example, it means no notifications on my cell phone, on my laptop, and I am the one who go check things when I need to check.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 21:58 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Disclosure
Jean-Charles Samoulian blocks 8 to 11 AM daily for deep work
“So, for example, in my calendar, every day from eight a.m. To 11 a.m., I have a no-meeting, long thinking time, where I go to Deep into topics.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 22:33 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020 negative
Insight
Founders should master industry regulations themselves rather than outsourcing to lawyers
“You should not give regulation to lawyers. Yourself, you know, you need to go as deep as possible.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 8:07 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020 positive
Insight
Frame company celebrations as opportunities to connect to long-term ambition
“The way we try to do it is to make the celebration as opportunity for ambition. So it's more, really, what we have done is amazing, and thank the team for doing that, and connect it to the long-term vision.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 26:12 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alan has published 230 consecutive weekly updates to employees and investors
“And we do a weekly update and we have done every week since even before we created the company. So I think it's 230 weekly updates now.”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 27:01 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Disclosure
Jean-Charles Samoulian personally read and summarized the entire French insurance code
“In our case, I spent a couple of months at the beginning of Alan reading the full insurance code, and it's a lot of pages, you can trust me, and I did like a summary of it, which was like this big Google Sheet document where you could fill documents, link arti…”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 8:12 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
Apr 3, 2020
Insight
Strict calendar structure enables productive unstructured thinking for leaders
“So it's very organized, but that organization is made to have long period of time where I can be unstructured. So it's structuration to be able to have unstructured thinking that is really productive. And that's a combination of both that I think makes a real …”
Jean-Charles Samoulian Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 23:40 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
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