Tristan Handy

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Oct 14, 2022
Insight
Tristan Handy: Inconsistent adoption and calendar meetings destroy asynchronous work models
“The problem with async and the re the time when it's really hard to adopt well is when it's adopted inconsistently. Cause if people start putting a bunch of meetings on everybody's calendars and that's how everybody expects work to get done, then all of a sudd…”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 59:48 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022
Insight
Tristan Handy: Luck gets you in the game, but skill drives success
“I think that you need some amount of luck to kind of be in the game. Whatever it is, like, You need some like minimum bar of luck. And then above that, it's probably skill.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 2:37 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Tristan Handy: Management consulting skills are mostly useless at early startups
“And then the hard thing, honestly, for a consultant was to figure out like how to make myself useful in this context, because the majority of the skills that I had learned to this point in my professional career were like, not that useful. Like I wasn't the pe…”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 1:29 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 negative
Opinion
Tristan Handy: Remote work from home is lonely and dehumanizing
“Like just because it's lonely and dehumanizing and because we're built to interact with other Humans. And for many of us, especially for you know, early career folks who are, you know, I mean, I lived in an apartment with four roommates right out of college. L…”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 27:55 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022
Disclosure
Tristan Handy: dbt Labs founders and employees owned 100% of cap table
“We owned a hundred percent of the cap table at this point, myself and my two co-founders and our employees.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 16:35 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Tristan Handy: dbt Labs raised four funding rounds during COVID
“It turns out that we raised four rounds of funding all during COVID and the valuations during that period started off attractive and only got more attractive.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 38:08 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022
Disclosure
Tristan Handy: Quarterly performance reviews must include uncomfortable feedback
“The goal that I always set for these meetings is that we don't leave the room without somebody saying something that feels uncomfortable.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 23:31 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 neutral
Opinion
Tristan Handy: Most startup and executive roles, including CEO, are not hard
“Honestly, I don't think that a lot of our jobs, including my job are like that hard.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 6:04 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Tristan Handy: Evaluating candidates on scale experience is the wrong hiring strategy
“I think it's like fundamentally, the talent search algorithm is fundamentally like not that hard. People just get focused on the wrong stuff. Like, have you led a customer success team at scale before? Like, that's the wrong question.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 6:38 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Tristan Handy: Hitting $1M ARR puts startups on an inescapable growth clock
“The minute that you have a million dollars in software ARR, you're on a clock. Like that people can take kind of infinitely long to get to a million dollars. It doesn't really matter. That's, Perceived to be like wandering around in the wilderness and that's f…”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 12:40 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 14, 2022 positive
Insight
Tristan Handy: CEOs should aim to make as few decisions as possible
“I explicitly, I have a doc that says, like, working with me, and what, how do I see my job? And in it says, I try to make as few decisions as possible.”
Tristan Handy Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 58:55 Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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