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postmortem

also referred to as: postmortems

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2020 by Gabriel Weinberg · across every show →

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Feb 14, 2020
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Postmortems on successful projects are often better than on failed ones
“And in fact, postmortems for good projects are often better than bad projects, because on a good project, there's no even tension about, like, blame or anything like that. And people can really open up and say, what could have made this even better?”
Gabriel Weinberg Feb 14, 2020 ▶ 25:25 20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo
Mar 27, 2020 positive
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Ravasio: Scheduled postmortems enable solution-focused thinking during active crises
“And I think having the postmortem as a pressure release valve and as a learning device that you know is coming later really encourages that kind of thinking in the moment.”
Alyssa Ravasio Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 21:00 20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp
Oct 28, 2021 positive
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Elena Verna: Premortems are far more effective than postmortems for growth teams
“I learned from Fareed, who was director of growth at Slack, that premortems are far more effective than postmortems.”
Elena Verna Oct 28, 2021 ▶ 29:04 20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
Apr 27, 2022
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Tarica: Proactive deal reviews eliminate the need for lost-deal post-mortems
“If both of these motions are done well, deal reviews and these large deal review meetings at the management level, and they're done well, and they're done consistently. There's almost not a need for a larger postmortem on the deal as when you lose a deal, beca…”
Mitch Tarica Apr 27, 2022 ▶ 30:06 20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head of Sales, Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Before Sales Reps, The 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps & What Sales Leaders Can Do To Make Their Sales Team Feel Like They Are Wi
Feb 5, 2025
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Levchin: Postmortems require a single directly responsible individual
“You have to have a directly responsible individual for authoring and presenting the postmortem.”
Max Levchin Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 22:34 Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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