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20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 6:08 Patrick Spence Torsten and I disagreed on the direction, and serendipitously at that time, John McFarlane, the co-founder of Sonos, had reached out. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Patrick Spence The hiring is the other big one where we went for quantity, I would say, at RIM, and we went through periods where we were just hiring people like mad, and we didn't have the quality control that we really needed, and I'll say at Sonos,…
- ▶ 18:57 Patrick Spence Whereas, you know, at Sonos, and with testament to John and some others, like, I learned the power of finding the