Kevin Weil
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 7, 2022 by Kevin Weil · said 9 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Oct 7, 2022 negative
Weil passed on investing in former colleagues who built successful startups
“There are a couple of companies that I chose not to invest in because they were founded by people whose work that I just, that, that I worked with and for whatever reason in that environment weren't amazing. And so I made the assumption that that was them, not…”
Oct 7, 2022 positive
Oct 7, 2022
Oct 7, 2022 positive
Weil: Peter Fenton, David Rosenblatt, and Carl Bass are top board members
“I'll give you three, actually. Peter Fenton, David Rosenblatt, and Carl Bass. Peter and David are on our board at Twitter. Carl's on the board at Planet. Because every single one of them, they are available whenever you need them. They're dedicated. They're ju…”
Oct 7, 2022
Weil: Scaling leaders must consistently repeat core priorities over presenting new ideas
“And in actuality, especially as your organization grows, it's really important to just say the same things over and over again. And so you got to make sure that those are the right things that you're sticking to the points that really fundamentally matter that…”
Oct 7, 2022
Weil: Effective organizations alternate leadership tiers between instigators and harmonizers
“You want alternating skills, just like you were saying, you want alternating skills, and he kind of classified people into, like, you know, are they kind of I'm trying to remember the word he used I don't remember, he had a provocative word for it, but basical…”
Oct 7, 2022 neutral
Weil: Rigid product strategies require product-market fit; early startups pivot frequently
“Like you invest in the early stages in companies and they're going to pivot three times before they find anything. So laying out a strategy and sticking to something, it assumes that you have some degree of product market fit.”
Oct 7, 2022
Kevin Weil: Qualitative feedback gets lost in large-scale data
“It's really important to have lots of data because data tells you important things. There's no excuse for not knowing data, but I actually really think anecdotal feedback is valuable because a lot of times the anecdotes can get lost in the in the data itself, …”
Oct 7, 2022 negative
Weil: Venture capital industry is fifty-fifty on hard work versus hype
“Less hype, more hard work for founders. I think the industry's kind of fifty-fifty there, you know. Some people are in, like, hustling every single day for the right things and helping their portfolio companies, and others are not.”
Oct 7, 2022
Kevin Weil: A/B testing is orthogonal to product boldness
“Testing doesn't mean timidity. You can always use the fact that you're testing something and you can run an AB test to test something, 99% and have a one percent hold back. You don't have to test one percent in Australia, right? Testing gives you data. You can…”