Miki Kuusi
15 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 28, 2022 by Miki Kuusi · said 7 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Nov 28, 2022
Wolt maintained a three-year PR blackout despite raising Series A and B
“We've raised our series A, it was ten million euros in January of 2016. The next round we've raised was in January 2018, two years later, that was our twenty seven million euro series B, and then we raised our series C in April of 2019, which we announced in J…”
Nov 28, 2022
Hire high-potential candidates before they achieve major scaling milestones
“One mistake people make in hiring is that they're looking for the person that has already done you know, what you need. And you're like, we need to hire that person. He's done this before. He's going to do it for us. And it's going to be amazing. But what peop…”
Nov 28, 2022
Kuusi: Biggest founder sacrifice is personal mental bandwidth and freedom
“So someone once asked me a bit out of the blue that what has been the biggest thing you've had to sacrifice to build, you know, do these things and to build your company and your career. And after, you know, thinking about it for a while, I came to the conclus…”
Nov 28, 2022
Wolt cut all non-restaurant offerings for five years to focus on delivery
“And for the five first years of our existence, restaurant, food, delivery. When we saw that it worked, we were like cut everything else. This is really difficult to do. We're only going to focus on doing this with great, quick, consistent customer experience a…”
Nov 28, 2022 negative
Nov 28, 2022 negative
Kuusi: Advice from successful founders suffers from extreme survivorship bias
“Every advice you hear from an entrepreneur, Always be mindful about that, because like, you know, first of all, entrepreneurs, they're successful telling advice. It's like a lottery millionaire telling that, you know, keep on betting. You're gonna eventually w…”
Nov 28, 2022
Kuusi rejected Wolt's first acquisition offer in 2015 despite being personally broke
“When we got our first acquisition offer. This was 2015. We're a one year old as a company and we get an acquisition offer, which had like cash or stock involved. And I was like, you know, 2015. I was 26. It was a big amount of money. Like when I started Walt, …”
Nov 28, 2022
Kuusi: High performance requires focusing on the smallest possible subset of priorities
“Like focus means making difficult decisions to put all of your effort in the smallest possible subset of things. And if I now think about performance, performance is the ability to decide what exactly are the things that you need to get right and getting that …”
Nov 28, 2022 positive
Nov 28, 2022 positive
Kuusi: Economic downturns and tech layoffs are ideal times to build startups
“When the world looks, you know, as fucked it is right now, that's a really good place to be starting something new. Because there's going to be a lot of things that get cleaned up from the economy. You know, right now you can see like a lot of tech tech compan…”
Nov 28, 2022
Nov 28, 2022
Kuusi: Cross-time-zone expansion severely stresses small engineering teams
“The reason we stick to stuck to Europe in the early years was that time zones are expensive. Like longer flights are more expensive. If you need to support like, you know, customers six hours times away, it means there's going to be engineers up every night pr…”
Nov 28, 2022
Nov 28, 2022 positive