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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
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings As for Patrick, prior to Sonos, he spent an incredible 14 years with RIM, makers of BlackBerry, across multiple different roles, and I do also want to say a huge thank you to Mike Volpe at Index, Sonos founder John McFarlane, and Robbie…
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from my Volpi and from John Sonos founder.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 21:48 Harry Stebbings Speaking of working on yourself there, I spoke to John, obviously, the founder of Sonos, and he said to me in terms of kind of your relationship and, you know, your role as COO when he was still with the firm as CEO, he stated that you… 6 times in the scene