Olivier Pomel
14 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 5, 2021 by Olivier Pomel · said 22 times in 11 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (6), Dan Fougere (6), Harry Stebbings (4), Shardul Shah (3), Ishan Mukherjee (1), Eric Liaw (1), Eleonore Crespo (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- 20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
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2024 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Olivier Pomel, oldest first
Apr 5, 2021
Pomel: Quadrupling team size in one year paralyzes company operations
“If you try to do things like quadrupling the size of the team in one year, chances are maybe it's going to be great a few years from now, but for the next year, two years, you're going to be completely out of commission. Like, your team will not do anything ex…”
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Apr 5, 2021
Pomel: Long-term investors often flip IPO shares immediately on 40% gains
“Many of them actually, even the long, the good long-term investors, like, they buy into your IPO, and they flip it right away because they've made, you know, 40% in one day, and that's good enough for them, and then they'll come back later.”
Apr 5, 2021
Pomel: Tech companies must scale recruiting capacity like sales teams
“When you think of things like recruiting, for example, you really should think about it like you do of a sales team. Like, it scales the same way. Like, a recruiter is going to have a given productivity, and if you want to go to a team in a certain way, you ne…”
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Pomel: Startup ground truth comes from internal operational data, not general advice
“The truth is usually in the details of your business. So it's not on the five liners you get from somebody at the cocktail party. Instead, it's looking at dozens of hundreds of customer emails, what's happening in your CRM, what's happening in your support cas…”
Apr 5, 2021
Datadog rejects executive playbooks in favor of leaders willing to learn
“The most important for us is the desire and the ability to learn. We don't think we've got So to speak, or should figure it out in general, we think we still have to learn pretty much everything, and that goes back to the early days of humility and trying to m…”
Apr 5, 2021
Apr 5, 2021 positive
Datadog employees donated $1 million to communities from company pandemic grants
“We actually gave grants to our employees to help them solve their own problems. We also decided to donate some of these grants because some people were feeling bad. They're feeling okay themselves, but they're really feeling really depressed and bad about thei…”
Apr 5, 2021
Pomel: Leaders must constantly engage in details or employees stop communicating
“You actually have to show real interest. And you have to engage with the details, because otherwise people stop telling you things, like if they realize you don't even know what they're talking about, or you're just waiting for them to leave your office, you k…”
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Apr 5, 2021
Pomel: A CEO's role is being 'equalizer in chief' during highs and lows
“As a CEO in general, you have to be the equalizer in chief, you know, so when things look great, you have to temper people's enthusiasm a little bit and say, hey, This looks great, but, you know, all these other things are still broken, we need to fix them. Wh…”