Stephane Kurgan
19 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2023 by Stephane Kurgan · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Jul 28, 2023 positive
Jul 28, 2023 positive
Kurgan: Product teams in data-rich environments must trust data over intuition
“Trust the data, not your intuition. You know, King was always pretty data driven, but it, it's, it was an incredibly data rich environment. I mean, the beauty of free to play on Facebook and later on mobile is that it provides you know, faster and a higher qua…”
Jul 28, 2023
Kurgan: A manager's job is making decisions, not being right
“So the job Is not to be right. The job is to make decisions. And of course you're going to get a bunch of decisions wrong. That's, and there is no negative feedback about that. If you keep making the same decision wrong multiple times, then that's a problem.”
Jul 28, 2023
Kurgan: Executives must multiply team time by doing pre-meeting work
“You are the service of your team. And that means that you, the that you should not be a consumer of their time, but you should be a multiplier of their time and their effort. That means that, you know, before you meet with them you know, if there is material, …”
Jul 28, 2023
Kurgan: Praise should be spontaneous yet sparse to retain high value
“You can be very spontaneous with praise. You want to be, you know, very systematic with it. When you see something that's great, you absolutely have to call it. But at the same time, you want to be sparse because otherwise it loses quite a bit of its value. An…”
Jul 28, 2023 neutral
Kurgan: Tech talent market is shifting away from candidate-dominated seller's market
“The market is clearing a bit and we're going to a place where you know, the balance between talent and organizations you know, goes back to something which is closer to the middle as opposed to being very much you know a seller market to the advantage of the i…”
Jul 28, 2023
Kurgan: Late-stage tech companies must standardize compensation before going public
“A lot of that data is, is gonna be shared with your institutional investors, and they will actually pay attention. That's one of the things where you have to do a lot of work actually being, before going public. Is your compensation policies.”
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Kurgan evaluates executives on operations, maturity, corporate contribution, and personal development
“The way I, you know, evaluate, you know, the performance of the leadership team is I look across four dimensions. You know, the first one is the operating or the financial performance of their function. So, you know, have they beaten their numbers essentially?…”
Jul 28, 2023 positive
Stephane Kurgan: Digital companies must iterate features in days, not months
“And speed of iteration is, is very important, especially in, in digital businesses. And, you know, to your earlier point, I, I've seen companies where, you know, they take six weeks or eight weeks or 10 weeks basically to come up with you know, a minor iterati…”
Jul 28, 2023 negative
Kurgan: Founders who cannot articulate a mission statement lack directional clarity
“And actually I think if you can't articulate a mission statement as a founder when you're at seed or series A stage, I have a question mark about whether you know, where you're going and what value you, you're gonna be delivering to your clients.”
Jul 28, 2023 neutral
Jul 28, 2023 neutral
Kurgan: Early-Stage Venture Investments Require Marriage-Like Founder Transparency
“When you invest in a company, it's a marriage, you know, it's gonna last, if it's early stage, it's gonna last for a very long time, And you need some level of transparency. If that transparency isn't there, you know, we're not going to be effective, and we we…”
Jul 28, 2023
Jul 28, 2023 negative
Stephane Kurgan: Frequently reversing decisions drives organizational paralysis
“What is incredibly toxic in organizations, and I've seen that many times, is you make a decision, and then you come back on it the next week, and then the following week, and, you know, basically drives paralysis in your organization.”
Jul 28, 2023
Kurgan: Leaders shouldn't assign tasks they were never willing to do
“Well, I think you shouldn't ask people to do what you haven't been willing to do at some point in your career. I mean, obviously, as things evolve, you know, the highest impact you might have with, for your shareholders and your company and your team might not…”
Jul 28, 2023
Jul 28, 2023
Kurgan: Dissatisfaction with internal communication worsens as companies scale
“When you run a survey inside a company and you ask the company, You know, is, is communication good? And do you, are you happy with the level of communication? The answer is always no. And it gets worse as you scale, right? So there is never enough communicati…”