Le Nel: Decisive binary choices outperform prolonged debates despite false positives
Antoine Le Nel · Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Oct 18, 2024 · at 38:51
Antoine Le Nel, Chief Growth Officer at Revolut, details Revolut's uncompromising decision-making culture and why eliminating appeals speeds up operational execution.
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“If we say yes, it's yes. If we say no, it's no. And then we move on. And there are some false positive, you know, into it. You know, there are definitely some false positive, where we may say yes, and it should have been a no, and we said no, it should have been a yes. So I'm not saying it's perfect, it's not perfect at all, you know, but at least we move a lot faster, you know, and yes, there's some cost in terms of false positive, but it's a lot more powerful.”
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