Lemkin: Founders Should Require Board Slides Instead of Notion Docs

“That's why I beg founders not to use notion and board meetings. I begged them to force everyone to make slides to spend the time because we all love notion and Coda. We just put our stuff in our Google docs. It's so efficient, isn't it? But not only did I think board meetings were stupid when I started investing, you know, what I thought was even stupider founders using slides. I'm like, oh my God, like people are still standing up in rooms and clicking. Like, I can't believe people are still like, I get what you do. Like, I don't need to see your stupid presentation. But then I realized this time goes on the work you force your management team to put into those slides for each board meeting forces Business organization, self-discipline, reporting, goal analytics, that otherwise they just don't bother to do in Notion.”

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