Tooey Courtemanche
18 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 4, 2023 by Tooey Courtemanche · across every show →
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Dec 4, 2023 negative
Courtemanche regrets hiring industry luminaries who lacked humility
“Yeah I've hired people again because I was, they were luminaries in our industry, and I said to myself, look, they may not be humble but they're gonna move the needle and I regretted I've regretted every single one of those decisions that I've made, and fortun…”
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CEOs need a trusted council of critics to ground them
“You live in a world where everyone tells you that every idea that you have is genius, right? Eventually your crazy, craziest ideas get acted upon. And they're not genius, right? So like, I love having this governor on me, which is, you know, this council of pe…”
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Willingness to return to carpentry saved Procore during hard times
“I think that's one of the reasons why we survived the hard times, is I just always believed that worst came to worst, I could go pick up a hammer, and I could go to work, and I could make, you know, an honest day's wages, and I would be fine.”
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Courtemanche: Modern workers lack resilience compared to World War II generation
“I honestly think that the reason that it was the greatest generation is they dealt with so much adversity And so much was on the line that they couldn't, they didn't have time to complain about there not being enough oat milk in the refrigerator in one of your…”
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Courtemanche calls customers to reset his attitude on stressful days
“I call a customer. I honestly do. And there's nothing that gets me more excited and kind of, Grounded in the love of what I do than when I talk to a customer. So I literally do, I'll be like, I'm going to stop everything today and I'm going to call a customer.…”
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Courtemanche wishes Procore used closed-envelope fundraising to avoid VC manipulation
“I would have run probably a much more, you know, I listened to your discussion with Scott from Atlassian and how they did the closed envelope fundraising. And I'm like, I was thinking to myself, I wish we had done that because it would have taken a lot of this…”
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Business resembles complex Legos where early errors mandate costly rollbacks
“If you get one piece wrong, and then you go 400 steps past it, you have to reverse all the way back to that step, get it right, and then go forward again. And I always think of it, it's like business, which is like, every step matters. And so, you have to be v…”
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Courtemanche took out two mortgages and sold assets to fund payroll
“Myself and Steve's on my co-founder. We had to go without a paycheck, and I'll never forget, Harry, having to go home and tell my wife who by the way, at this point, we had sold everything that we had acquired in life. Like, I had, like, two mortgages on the h…”
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Courtemanche's wife attended under 10 company events in 21 years
“You would be surprised to know that I think Hillary has probably attended less than 10 Procore events in 21 years. She desperately tries to keep a firewall between our family and Procore, and that's her contribution to it, is when I get home, we don't talk abo…”