management team

“We almost always try to work through the management team directly, or if we are interacting with VCs, we are typically trying to do so with the consent of management.”

“Board meetings are rated most highly when people are energized and when the management team takes away a couple of good, useful ideas. So I think in a three hour board meeting, five ideas that the manager team writes down and tries to figure out what to deal w…”

“In my experience in sitting on boards, and I'm sad on many, no matter how hard you tried, you never really know what's going, my experience has been, you never really know what's going on inside of a company, so board members are entirely dependent on On the m…”

“If a decision is easy, it's probably a half measure. If it's hard, if it's really damn hard, if it's controversial, you're probably doing enough of it.”

“I try and really listen closely to the management teams, you know, cause, cause they are so much closer to the action. And, you know, if you're talking about, should you sell a private company or not? Their recommendations need to be really discerned and close…”

“My terminology from experience is there are VCs that are seagulls, And here's my definition. They fly into a room, or fly into a meeting, fly into a location, they basically take a shit, and they fly away. They talk a lot, they give work to do for other people…”