Zappacosta advises founders to hold weekly check-ins with board members
Marco Zappacosta · 20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success · Apr 20, 2018 · at 11:00
Marco Zappacosta is the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack. He discusses the value of recurring short, informal check-ins with Sequoia board member Bryan Schreier.
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“I would definitely encourage founders to have a weekly or every other week phone call. Ours is 30 minutes. We often use 10 to 20 minutes. Sometimes we use the whole thing. Rarely we skip it, but it does happen, and it's just someone I trust a lot, someone who knows the business and cares about the business and has seen a lot and can help me honestly just move faster.”
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