Jean-Denis Greze
35 statements across 2 episodes · 12 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2023 by Jean-Denis Greze · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jul 21, 2023
Jul 21, 2023
First-Time Founders Neglect Firing Underperforming Talent Early Enough
“One of the things you realize about founders is first time founders, they don't realize they have to be great at firing. They just think they have to be great at hiring, but you have to be great at realizing when your talent's not working out and identifying t…”
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Metric-Driven Goals Incentivize Incremental Progress Over Major Innovations
“A lot of product work actually at most companies, right? On a metric will incentivize the walking kind of behavior because it's measurable. It's clear that it's going to get you in the right direction and every day you see progress and that's awesome. But the …”
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Single North Star Metrics Fail to Solve Core Product Challenges
“I think now compared to five years ago, I'm more wary of like the one metric to rule them all. Yeah, Yeah, I, because just cause because I's seen it, I've seen what I would say the difficult part of product not be solved by setting the right metric. It certain…”
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Jul 21, 2023 positive
Jul 21, 2023
Plaid Sees Equal Remote Engineering Productivity but Lower Employee Belonging
“Like definitely I have no difference in like PR success rate. I think the only thing in remote that's hurting me is Paul's score in terms of belonging and how much fun people are having on the work. Like, I think that has gone down from before, but I think in …”
Jul 21, 2023
Hesitating to Replace Weak Function Leads Wastes 18 Months of Momentum
“And if one of your function leads isn't scaling, yeah, you might give them three months, But pretty quickly you got to realize, hey, it's not working because next thing you know, you might have, you know, if you wait like a 12 months and then you make a new hi…”
Jul 21, 2023
Jul 21, 2023 bullish
Jul 21, 2023
Startups Should Standardize Internal HR Policies Rather Than Innovating on Them
“My overarching thesis is that a lot of people things On a lot of people matters, how you level, how you title, how you comp how you organize your org, like your manager to IC ratio, remote hybrid. It's like, pick a thing, pick one of the three options on the m…”
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Building $10B+ Companies Requires Massive Personal Sacrifice With Rare Exceptions
“Well, so I know a few truly great people who I think are, have the right viewpoint and are really good at motivating and delegating, meaning they create the structure for success, like the North star, the product roadmap, and then they're able to motivate othe…”
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Jul 21, 2023
In-Person Fits Early Creative Work, Remote Suits Scaled Incremental Execution
“Highly creative, fast moving work where you're not sure what the requirements are and where your customers are local, meaning where you can go and talk to your customers by like walking over to their office. So this is like historical new company, new startup …”
Jul 21, 2023
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Generic Interview Questions Yield No Real Signal for Senior Hires
“Where all the interviewers are like, you know, heads of things, and they're all asking the generic question, like, oh, tell me a great success in your career. Tell me about a time you failed. And you don't get real signal from that.”
Jul 21, 2023 positive
Scaling Startups Should Adopt Industry Job Titles Around 1,000 Employees
“So I think at scale, when you're, like, at our size right now, like, we're, you know, a thousand people total, Like transparently, I think you want to go with the grain of the industry, not against it, because it's just too much fighting to go against it in so…”
Jul 21, 2023 negative
Dropbox's Internal Slack Competitor Product Was a Big Flop
“And then when I was at Dropbox, I was responsible internally for kind of trying to build a Slack like product, basically a product that would allow communication on top of like the documents that are in, in, in Dropbox. And we just, we really, really didn't fi…”
Jul 21, 2023 neutral
Jul 21, 2023
Hiring Panels Cannot Evaluate Top Candidates Without Comparative Baseline Interviews
“You have to have interviewed enough people that you know what greed looks like. And so if you have the perfect candidate be your first hire, like the first person you interview, it's really hard to pull the trigger because people don't have any comparison poin…”
Jul 21, 2023 positive
First Round Spends More Time Helping Founders Reach PMF Than Rivals
“I just like, I like those guys, and I think they I think they really care about helping founders get to product market fit. Like, I think they're, they will sit and spend more time with the founders to help them get there than other funds that I know, so that'…”
Jul 21, 2023 bullish
Next Big SaaS Winners Will Consolidate Features Over UX Differentiation
“I think for the existing startups, what you''ve got to look at is it probably isn''t going to be UX and there''s probably going to be consolidation because we''ve over verticalized things by going after every like bit of the software with a slightly better UX …”
Sep 7, 2026 bullish
Greze: AI encourages hiring more engineers by boosting their marginal revenue
“AI means that suddenly that engineer can generate more than they could have before. So maybe before they could only generate a 150 K of revenue. Maybe now they can generate two 50 K of revenue. So suddenly AI makes you hire the incremental person, right? One m…”
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Greze: Misleading headline valuations on fundraising rounds is unethical toward employees
“Personally, I don't think it's ethical. I don't think it's ethical towards employees. You know, most of all, if you're not, I mean, maybe when you hire someone, you tell them for sure. Because it's like the dilution wasn't that number one. It's not where most …”
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Greze: Silicon Valley startups routinely inflate headline valuations via blended rounds
“I have seen deals where it's like, I invested like 200 and then the announcement is at 500. And then what you learn is that like, you know, they raised sixty five million and like five millions at 500 and the other 60 is like 200 or 300, right? There's a whole…”
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Greze: Town pivoted after spending a year failing at AI tax prep
“We've spent a year building an AI tax company, like business tax prep with AI, and we just, we got to some product market fit, but not enough where it was going to be a success. Like that's, you know, there's a thing, like the truth is we failed at building a …”
Sep 7, 2026 positive
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Sep 7, 2026 positive
Greze: Town skips core role evaluation for vouched-for engineering candidates
“A person that I trust that's great on my team, like great on my team. They tell me this other person is like one of the best people that I ever worked with. And then I'm going to make that person like spend eight hours doing stupid whiteboard interview or like…”
Sep 7, 2026 positive
Greze: Enterprise AI adoption accelerates when a team has an internal tinkerer
“If the company has one person who is a tinkerer and who starts to build things like team skills, team integrations, team routines, that is like building, those are all building blocks on town that everyone on the team gets for free. Then we'd send to see a lot…”