Shishir Mehrotra
11 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2020 by Shishir Mehrotra · said 15 times in 8 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
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2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 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
- 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- 20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Shishir Mehrotra, oldest first
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Sep 25, 2020 positive
YouTube chose experience consistency over comprehensiveness, refusing to link out
“We said, okay, consistency matters more than comprehensiveness, and we had our sort of 10 principles of YouTube, and this was one of them, I think it was number two, and we made our decision. We're not going to link out”
Sep 25, 2020 positive
Shishir Mehrotra claims 90% of Coda's best ideas originate from internal hackathons
“One of the things we do at Coda is our hackathons are a really big piece of our culture. We do it three or four times a year. I would not be exaggerating to say that 90% of the best ideas in Coda have come out of hackathons.”
Sep 25, 2020
Sep 25, 2020 negative
Tech insiders called YouTube a dead-end product when Shishir Mehrotra joined
“I mean, joining YouTube at that time, every email I got from everybody, including my parents and phone was, why are you doing this? This is a dead-end product in the dead-end space, even people very close to the industry.”
Sep 25, 2020
Sep 25, 2020
Google CFO Patrick Pichette regularly debated divesting YouTube in early meetings
“When I joined YouTube, every press article was, what a big mistake, and every meeting I had with, Patrick was the CFO at the time, and he had just joined Google, every meeting we had was, should we keep this property, or should we get rid of it?”
Sep 25, 2020 neutral
Coda originated while brainstorming a pivot for a co-founder's failing startup
“Starting a company was the last thing on my mind, but I had this friend and ex-colleague, Alex Nye, who is busy starting a company, and thankfully that company wasn't going particularly well, and so in the process of brainstorming for him what he should pivot …”
May 16, 2025 positive
Yamashita: Shishir Mehrotra excels at intentionally designing organizational culture
“He's such an incredible systems thinker. He just knows how to run an organization, and he obsesses over rituals and basically kind of designs. I think a lot of times, you know, you think about building a product and designing a product, but he also thinks abou…”