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Johnny Boufarhat

15 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2020 by Johnny Boufarhat · said 13 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2020 negative
Insight
Boufarhat: Founders fail beyond 40 employees by refusing to delegate control
“You get a lot of founders who do fantastically early on, and they don't know how to scale past, like, 40 people. They still want to be overlord. They still think their opinions matter more than everyone else.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 12:38 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Insight
Boufarhat: Cutting dairy, gluten, and seed oils boosts performance 10-20%
“If you're not someone from Northern Europe originally, I would say, in general, dairy, modern gluten, so non-sourdough, if it's very high doses of gluten, are not good for you, and obviously cornstarch and vegetable oils, etc. I think if you just remove those …”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 27:35 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Disclosure
Boufarhat: Hopin aggressively required initial hires to refer top candidates
“The initial people that we hired, we did spend a lot more time hiring them and making sure the quality bar was met, and we asked them to do referrals to the three best people we'd met, and we were very aggressive on this”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 11:06 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Disclosure
Boufarhat: Hopin Was Built Purely on Intuition, Not Industry Data
“Hopin was purely intuition. There was no data from someone, or else someone from the webinar industry probably would have built Hopin, because they would have been able to realize that people were after more networking.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 15:08 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Disclosure
Boufarhat: Hopin prioritized early hiring speed over maximum quality
“When we were nine people, our customers didn't care how slowly we hired. So I was like, we need to bring good people in very quickly, as good as possible. So really, the speed thing was more important. Quality needed to be there, but it was not of total import…”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 10:40 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Transitioning in-person companies to remote causes 20-30% employee churn
“You're going to lose a lot of your team. I think you'll lose 20 to 30% of your team if they don't have the initial outset that this is going to be a remote company.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 7:45 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Supported
IVP invested heavily in Hopin without meeting founder Johnny Boufarhat in person
“I spoke to Jules and Alex at IVP before, and they said, we've invested a lot of money into Hopin, never met Johnny.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 16:13 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin lacks a clear direct competitor to monitor
“Hopin doesn't have a clear, direct competitor today in terms of one that I'm much more closely monitoring”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 21:08 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Insight
Boufarhat: Founders should not accept unexpected preemptive term sheets
“If you got preempted, and you weren't aware you were going to get preempted, then you shouldn't take the money.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 18:53 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Insight
Boufarhat: Data Should Only Inform 10% to 40% of Startup Decisions
“So for me, I think data should always be to 10 to 40% of every decision we make happen.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 15:54 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Disclosure
Boufarhat restricted VCs from contacting Hopin's executive team directly
“For me, it was important that, hey, you can call me at any time, especially after midnight when there's less things going on, but I don't want you bothering the team, essentially, or having the rights to do that.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 19:52 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020
Insight
Boufarhat: Data Optimizes Existing Products but Rarely Creates New Ones
“Looking from a product perspective, you can use data to optimize product. A lot of the time you can't use data to create a new product.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 15:02 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Insight
Boufarhat: Shopping term sheets increases leverage even with preferred VCs
“Even shopping around gets you more leverage with the VC, so it's not only about the price, even if it's the VC that you're interested in. It makes them more hungry for it makes them more excited.”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 19:22 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020 bearish
Opinion
Boufarhat: Setting up a startup in San Francisco may be a net negative
“I think London has now become a Clear option that you could run a very successful business from London, but I think that's happened most other places in the world that I think that probably San Francisco is not where you need to be anymore, and actually it may…”
Johnny Boufarhat Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 26:29 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
May 8, 2024
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Hopin founder Johnny Boufarhat cashed out $200M in secondary sales
“And so Johnny took two hundred million off.”
Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 ▶ 42:15 Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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