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Shishir Mehrotra argues 13-week quarterly planning is an awkward timeframe
“13 weeks is An awkward planning timeframe. It's not long enough that you can really make long-term bets. It's just too short for that, but it's too long for making commitments.”
Shishir Mehrotra claims 90% of Coda's best ideas originate from internal hackathons
“One of the things we do at Coda is our hackathons are a really big piece of our culture. We do it three or four times a year. I would not be exaggerating to say that 90% of the best ideas in Coda have come out of hackathons.”
Dylan Field: Platform-first strategy takes longer initially but scales faster later
“I think it might take a little bit longer to go platform route, but then you have this sort of opportunity to back into scale it faster.”
Coda reached 25,000 active teams 1.5 years after its 1.0 launch
“We shipped Coda One Dot O last February, so it took a while for us to build the base product for Coda, but we've only been in market for about a year and a half, and it's scaling super well. It just crossed 25,000 teams using Coda, and it's a product that's ki…”
Garg: Electric Capital invested in Coda for zero-knowledge blockchain compression
“We did an investment in a company called Coda that has some novel ways to compress the blockchain itself using zero knowledge proofs. And the reason I think this is really interesting is what it allows is for a much, much smaller blockchain, which allows for m…”
Shishir Mehrotra advises designing company meetings and cadences like software applications
“I think the main advice I'd give is design your meetings and design your cadence. Like you design your apps.”
Coda originated while brainstorming a pivot for a co-founder's failing startup
“Starting a company was the last thing on my mind, but I had this friend and ex-colleague, Alex Nye, who is busy starting a company, and thankfully that company wasn't going particularly well, and so in the process of brainstorming for him what he should pivot …”