management consulting

3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2015 by Guy Turner · across every show →

Everything said about management consulting, oldest first

Jul 22, 2015 positive
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Turner: Consulting work directly prepares venture capitalists for deal evaluation
“The consulting work was probably a little bit more transferable in the sense that, you know, as a consultant, you spend one to four months at a time looking at an industry and hopefully learning just enough with just enough of a different viewpoint than the co…”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 3:22 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Oct 14, 2022 negative
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Tristan Handy: Management consulting skills are mostly useless at early startups
“And then the hard thing, honestly, for a consultant was to figure out like how to make myself useful in this context, because the majority of the skills that I had learned to this point in my professional career were like, not that useful. Like I wasn't the pe…”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 1:29 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 26, 2025 positive
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Gibson: Starting in consulting before moving hands-on benefits most careers
“I think for most careers, if you start like that, and then go into something where you're a little bit more hands-on, it's a really good way to start.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 4:25 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
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