Quentin Clark

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 28, 2020 by Quentin Clark · said 12 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Dec 28, 2020
Insight
Clark: Management can be taught, but leadership requires real-world practice
“Management is definitely something that more can be taught, like, at school. You know what I mean? Like, there's books to read, there's techniques to put in play, there's things that work for people. You can go learn those things. It's much more of a book lear…”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 10:46 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020
Disclosure
Clark: General Catalyst closed multiple deals without meeting founders in person
“I've done seven or eight investments, I guess, since I started. Four or five of those are during the pandemic, right? That ballpark. And I've done three or four of these now without ever meeting the founder.”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 14:05 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020 positive
Opinion
Clark: The SAP CTO title opened every door in Silicon Valley
“SAP was a great job, because everyone took the call from the CTO of SAP, right?”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 3:54 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020 neutral
Insight
Clark: Board management should feel like jazz improv, not an orchestra
“But I think when this is done well, for the board member, it feels like you have the space to think, to collaborate, to contribute. More like improv. If you want to compare this to different kinds of bands, right, it's more like jazz, less like orchestra.”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 29:18 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Clark: SAP's core ERP will outlast all software from its generation
“SAP's core ERP, I believe, is going to outlast everything of that generation”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 33:08 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020
Prediction Partly held up
Clark: Post-pandemic employees will spend one to two days weekly in offices
“We will see, like, one to two days a week people go in and collaborate, but a lot of the time people will be spending independently working.”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 31:44 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Clark: General Catalyst incubated healthcare startup Commure in-house
“Yeah, that's a great question, and Commure is a unique-ish example in the sense that Commure is a company that Hamath and I started within General Catalyst. It's a quote, what we call hatch, Right. It's an incubation from within the firm.”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 16:58 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020
Insight
Clark: Board members should guide founders via mentorship, not authority
“Our job is really to help them find their answers by being a focusing factor, right? Help them sort out their own thinking, not impose your own. It's leading without authority, and it's leading through mentorship, is sort of the mentality.”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 26:46 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Dec 28, 2020 neutral
Insight
Clark: Even positive unexpected surprises erode board trust
“The number one piece of advice I can give founders is around managing their boards is don't surprise anybody. Just no surprises. Even good surprises erode trust.”
Quentin Clark Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 28:38 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
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