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Ravi Gupta

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2020 by Ravi Gupta · said 17 times in 8 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Sep 14, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Gupta: A Sequoia partner shared their 360 feedback with the entire partnership
“At Sequoia, one of our partners late last year shared their three 60 feedback with all of us at a partner meeting and then asked, can you help me get better on these?”
Ravi Gupta Sep 14, 2020 ▶ 25:22 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
Sep 14, 2020 negative
Insight
Gupta: VCs must remember companies exist for people's life's work
“Investors would be best served to remember that Companies do not exist for their pleasure. Companies exist for people to do their life's work. And when you do decide it's not for you, that it's not about proving that you're right.”
Ravi Gupta Sep 14, 2020 ▶ 37:37 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
Sep 14, 2020
Insight
Gupta: Any team evaluation short of 'enthusiastic rehire' is a no
“I think the question you've got to ask if you're building or evaluating your team is, would you enthusiastically rehire this person if given the chance, knowing everything you know? And I think the word enthusiastically is so important here because it removes …”
Ravi Gupta Sep 14, 2020 ▶ 6:55 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
Sep 14, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gupta: Instacart's execution stalled when attempting six priorities in one quarter
“And so I remember this time at Instacart where we had six company priorities in a quarter and a month into the quarter or halfway into the quarter, we weren't moving nearly as fast as we wanted on any of them.”
Ravi Gupta Sep 14, 2020 ▶ 18:07 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
Sep 14, 2020 positive
Opinion
Gupta: Stripe maintains its talent bar by enduring unfilled open roles
“I think that Stripe is absolutely inspirational on this topic. And I personally, I think they've done it the right way, which I think they are willing to deal with the pain of not filling a spot because they respect that spot so much that they're only going to…”
Ravi Gupta Sep 14, 2020 ▶ 10:35 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
Sep 14, 2020
Insight
Gupta: Work provides more immediate feedback than parenting, distorting our priorities
“There's always a reason that you should stay late and work on something, because the impact that you'll make at work will be more visible for that next hour than the impact you'll make at home by the things you do with your kids, and it's more visible and tang…”
Ravi Gupta Sep 14, 2020 ▶ 34:37 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
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