Matt Straz
10 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2017 by Matt Straz · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- 20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
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Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 negative
Straz: Early title inflation forces startups to fire rather than demote
“A very common thing that I've seen happen, and I've done it too in each of my three companies, is title inflation. Giving somebody a title that they want now is Which will then sometimes box them out of being able to progress with the company longer term. And …”
Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 negative
Straz: Mid-sized WPP businesses had abysmal or non-existent HR software
“I had been working in a holding company called WPP, which is an ad agency holding company, and I was working with hundreds and hundreds of small to mid-sized companies, and they all had one thing in common, which is they were people-driven businesses and had e…”
Dec 15, 2017
Matt Straz: Hire executives with a 4-to-5 year runway for 10x growth
“I think what I look for are people that can get us to 10 X more growth, right? There's people early on that will help you get to your first million in ARR revenue, and then you'll hire a next wave that'll get you from one to 10. And then you're looking for peo…”
Dec 15, 2017
Straz: Namely involves existing employees when hiring their new boss
“Even if we're going to add somebody or top somebody and we're going to bring in their boss, I'm very, very transparent and I'm very upfront with the person that's going to have a new boss and a new leader that they participate in the process.”
Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017
Matt Straz: Strong People Ops becomes crucial past 100 employees
“Once you start to get to scale and you have more than a hundred people, you're going to end up with a pretty broad representation of the overall general population. And you're going to get a lot of different kinds of people. And there's going to be a point whe…”
Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017
Straz: CEOs cannot save every departing employee and must retain selectively
“And I think the reality is if a CEO is a lifeguard, you can't save everybody, right? Some people actually do need to move on. And I think you need to be really, really careful About how much effort you have available to save people, to retain them, and be real…”