manager

“Today, the entrepreneurs are picking the managers. This is in stark contrast to any other asset class. So in any other asset class, you can look at a great manager and you can assess their ability to pick securities. Ok, so it's a security selection. So ventur…”

“My general, like, managing philosophy around why people don't perform is it's really the sole responsibility of their manager. You've either failed to give them the context of what you're trying to achieve, or you've hired a person with the wrong skills in the…”

“The job as a manager is to develop The capabilities underneath you at all times.”

“Just go in and just jump to Harry. We got to talk about this Because you're not going to be successful here unless you can nail these three things. I start with the hard stuff because everybody dreads it on both sides. That's my recommendation to you. Like, do…”

“That's why I always advise managers to like put in place deadlines that are not like tomorrow or next week, but like two to three weeks out, because if they're not going to make a three week out deadline, they're not going to do it.”

“You should know within 30 days about whether someone's going to be a fit or not.”

“There are always going to be some managers that have that kind of LP pull that people will just keep working with. But I think that list is getting smaller, and I think the names are switching around.”

“I'm having more conversations with more managers who are like, hey, we're just going to try to find some soft landing for these companies. It's just not going to work, which we've been expecting for years to my point about loss ratio. So that doesn't wildly su…”

“For every coder, there are 16 managers, right?”

“It's much harder to find very senior ICs who have, you know, superpowers on different topics than to find managers, right?”