Antoine Le Nel: Agility Is Measured by Speed of Killing Projects
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 2:04
Antoine Le Nel, Chief Growth Officer at Revolut and former VP of Growth at King, discusses how King's willingness to kill projects slowed down over time during a discussion on game development agility.
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“That's how you probably can measure the agility of the organization is how quickly you kill projects versus how many more chances you're giving to them.”
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