Matt Mochary
13 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 13, 2019 by Alex MacCaw · said 16 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Grant LaFontaine (11), Harry Stebbings (3), Alex MacCaw (2)
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2022 11 mentions in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Matt Mochary, oldest first
Sep 13, 2019
Mar 9, 2020
Conducting monthly calendar energy audits dissipates executive fear within three months
“What you'll find is usually by month three, once you've done this three times, your calendar will be mostly green, mostly energy raising, and you will find yourself, I believe, feeling tremendous amounts of joy, and that fear will likely have dissipated a lot,…”
Mar 9, 2020
Matt Mochary's coaching client list includes partners at Benchmark, Sequoia, and Kleiner
“On the VC side, Matt has worked with the likes of Peter Fenton at Benchmark, Several Sequoia partners, Hemond at GC, and Mamoon at Kleiner, to name a few. As for founders, Matt's worked with the founders of Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Reddit, Flexport, and many mor…”
Mar 9, 2020
Mar 9, 2020
Outsource immediate business decisions to uninvolved parties when experiencing fear or anger
“If I have to act immediately, I outsource my thinking to someone else. Someone who's not in fear or anger. So I share the situation with someone who's not part of the situation, and their brain, therefore, is not triggered because it doesn't matter to them, an…”
Mar 9, 2020
Mochary: Poor performance stems from disliking tasks rather than lacking skill
“Now, typically, if they're bad at something, it's because they hate it, and therefore it They don't want to do it. They don't want to invest in studying how to do it. They don't want to practice it. So they do it just the bare minimum required, which of course…”
Mar 9, 2020
Mochary: Leaders Should Only Accept Feedback That Resonates With Them
“If the feedback is something that does not resonate with you, Then no, you do not need to accept it. I think you do need to say thank you, and you do need to reflect back what it is that they said so that they know that you've heard them, but you don't then ne…”
Mar 9, 2020 positive
Startup CEOs need warm network introductions from investors, not strategic advice
“And usually it's not strategic thinking because you have very little information about the company. They're at the company, 30 days a month, 12 hours a day. They have so much more information than you do. But what you have that they don't is you have a network…”
Mar 9, 2020
Mochary: Never force transparent feedback on stressed employees without agreed timing
“There has to be, you can't force this upon someone in the middle of them being stressed about another situation or being in the middle of another task. So the key is to simply reach out and say, Hey, I'd like to clear something with you is now an okay time for…”
Mar 9, 2020 negative
Permanent board seats are the death of every great venture investor
“First of all, know that boards are the death of every great investor. So Be wary. If you sell to founders that when they take your money, you will join their board and be on their board forever. Know that you have just ended your career eventually.”
Mar 9, 2020
Mochary: Joy is a far greater motivator for founders than fear
“Fear is an incredible motivator, and I think that most people, including myself in my earlier days, that was my main motivation. Now, in my later years, I've learned to replace that with joy, which is an even greater motivator and certainly much more pleasant,…”
Mar 9, 2020
De-escalate angry colleagues by voicing exaggerated, expletive-laden criticisms of yourself
“And one of the easiest ways is to simply have their anger named and their thoughts named. So I will simply say, hey, I sense that you're feeling a lot of anger right now, and my guess is that some of the thoughts you're having are blank, and then I'll really g…”
Mar 23, 2022
Openly Roasting the CEO Builds High-Trust Executive Leadership Teams
“He'll kick it off with me where it'd be like, all right, you can go and roast Grant on all of the bad things he's doing. Give him like the toughest feedback you can give him. I'll sit there and listen to it. And most of the time it's accurate. And so I'll ackn…”