Luc Levesque

20 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2022 by Luc Levesque · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jul 13, 2022 positive
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Levesque: Building Messenger Kids was his team's biggest win at Facebook
“I had a variety of teams at Facebook, but the one that was the biggest win for us was building messenger kids and engaging an entirely new segment of the population and by building this kind of safe family messaging product.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 6:13 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 positive
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Levesque: Exceptional candidates receive backchannel references without caveats
“Great people usually come without caveats.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 14:30 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Ideal growth teams directly own all key product surfaces
“I think ideally you want the growth team to own all of the services. That matter the most to growth. That's the ideal state. Senior leader, multi disciplined. They know how to do engineering. They know how to do growth. They know how to do product, and they ha…”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 23:59 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Founders should compensate advisors with equity to align incentives
“Ideally you want to hire an advisor who you're aligning incentives. So you bring in an advisor and you compensate them with equity. That's the ideal.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 51:23 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 positive
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Levesque: True growth mastery enables high-accuracy intuition without extra testing
“And to me that differentiates a good growth person from a truly exceptional growth person, somebody who understands all the levers because that deep understanding is what will let you use your intuition. To launch new experiments and drive new growth without h…”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 16:56 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 positive
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Levesque: Growth teams perform best as standalone, cross-functional units
“Personally, I find that it works best when it's standalone. It really comes down to Who you're able to hire to bring on the team and the skill sets that that person, because that's the constraint. The constraint is going to be that who can you find to lead the…”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 9:55 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 negative
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Levesque: Relational breakdown is more fatal to growth teams than slow speed
“You know, speed and velocity can be improved. A relationship falling apart can be completely dysfunctional and just cause the whole thing to fall apart.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 32:05 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Pair junior growth hires with advisors if senior talent is unavailable
“So one other approach, if the ability to hire somebody very senior is not possible, then you can hire somebody who's a bit more junior. But in that case, I would surround them with a set of advisors.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 11:46 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: TripWow saw diminishing returns after three homepage iterations
“We did seven iterations of the homepage and after three, we saw a lot of impact, but then there was very much diminishing returns to whether it's button colors or changing the UI or adding free to the button.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 40:54 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Developing growth intuition requires extensive pattern matching experience
“Growth takes a really long time to build intuition around. So you need to have done a lot of experiments, tried a lot of different things, and growth is a lot about pattern matching.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 11:15 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Rapid promotion in growth roles can be a counter-signal
“In most professions, if somebody's at a company and they're promoted very quickly, that would be a good sign that this person is you know, exceptional. And in growth, because there's so few people in the space, It could suggest that they're exceptional, but it…”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 20:18 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 positive
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Levesque: A former manager re-hiring someone is a top talent signal
“When somebody's leader left a company and went to another company and came back to get them. And if you think about the social dynamic that, that takes place there. The only person that, or one of the only people that really knows how good a growth leader is, …”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 13:43 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Root Knowledge of Growth Experiments Is More Transportable Than Results
“So if an experiment worked, that's just knowing that experiment worked is interesting, but may not be repeatable. The most important thing is understanding the why behind it. Why did it actually work? It goes back to some of my interview questions. It'd be, I …”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 37:49 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Removing friction stops driving growth past user intent threshold
“You get to a point where you've just removed enough friction proportional to the intent of the users coming through, and removing more friction is not going to move the needle.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 41:08 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Public speaking and social media presence do not correlate with growth ability
“The social media halo or public speaking halo does not correlate with ability. So I've seen people make hires for people that are, you know, on the stage often and great speakers and great evangelists that doesn't always translate to somebody who's, who's grea…”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 21:14 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Luc Levesque: Growth leaders should say no at least monthly to unaligned requests
“And I think you know, an important part of leading growth is probably saying no, you know, once a week or at least once a month to something that doesn't align with that North star.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 46:53 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 neutral
Opinion
Levesque: Facebook growth hires often struggle without internal company scaffolding
“If this person's from Facebook, they'll have a very specific set of knowledge because they're supported with a lot of scaffolding at Facebook.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 15:42 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022 neutral
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Levesque: Requiring interview tests risks losing top-tier growth candidates
“So I'd say in a smaller percentage of times I get somebody to do a test, but also growth people are in a very high demand. So You know, many times candidates, if they're not really interested in the role may just choose not to do the test.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 19:01 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Levesque: Advisors are the fastest way for founders to gain knowledge
“I really, I actually do think more people, more founders should leverage advisors. It's probably the fastest way to get wins and get knowledge.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 50:43 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
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Luc Levesque: Growth is whatever it takes to move one key metric
“It's basically whatever it takes to move that one metric you're trying to increase.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 8:33 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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