premortem

also referred to as: pre-mortems · premortems

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2021 by Annie Duke · across every show →

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Jan 11, 2021
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Duke: Perform a pre-mortem immediately after making an investment
“As soon as you make an investment, you need to do premortem, and you need to say, what are the ways that this investment can go wrong?”
Annie Duke Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 24:24 20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
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
Nov 4, 2022 positive
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Mauboussin: Premortems surface downside risks by forcing independent, forward-looking critique
“And the other one, I mean, the other technique is known as a premortem, which you're probably familiar with, which is we pretend we made the investment. It's now a year from now, or two years from now, and this investment's turned very sour. It's very bad. We'…”
Michael Mauboussin Nov 4, 2022 ▶ 18:15 Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 26, 2023 neutral
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Batchu: Reserve pre-mortems for major strategy departures and high-risk investments
“So I typically think of like pre-mortems as something that feels like a big departure from current strategy or something that's a lot of investment or that you believe has a lot of high potential in terms of visibility or risk or pipeline generation. For thing…”
Sri Batchu Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 17:21 Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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