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Laqua: Demanding seven-day workweeks filters for the right hires
“And if you want to win, then actually it's something that I think attracts the right type of person and absolutely repels the wrong type of person.”
Nico Laqua: Boards Cannot Prevent Unethical Executives From Committing Fraud
“If management is like unethical or unscrupulous enough to scam people or do illegal stuff, then they're going to do it anyways, probably with or without a board and that's a management problem.”
Corgi employs plenty of parents despite its intense work culture
“We have plenty of parents that work at Corgi, so life's about trade-offs and sacrifices.”
Laqua: Corgi Insurance never accepts the highest valuation offered in fundraising
“So we never take the highest price ever. I think that that's just a good rule of thumb. Like we always go with like the second or third highest price.”
Laqua: Committee-based decision-making in business is nonsense
“Like every committee decision I think is like BS. Like sometimes you need to be able to take an unpopular stance and you just need to be able to plant your flag in the ground.”
Laqua: Founders learn more from studying victories than analyzing mistakes
“Yeah, I think if you dwell on mistakes, then you're, like, I look more at the victories than, Then the losses, because I think there's more to learn from the victories. And if you can kind of emulate the things that have worked really well again and again.”
Laqua: Angel investing is a distraction for startup founders
“I don't angel invest. Why? I think it's a distraction. Yeah. I don't think it's like, Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't feel like it's is, is core to like winning, you know.”
Nico Laqua: Corgi spends $400,000 monthly on Anthropic and zero on OpenAI
“We spend maybe like 400,000 dollars per month on, on Anthropic and zero dollars on open AI at the moment.”
Laqua: Low cash compensation is generally good for startups
“I think low cash comp is something good generally speaking.”
Corgi Insurance completes fundraising rounds in a couple of days at most
“A couple of days at most.”
Corgi Insurance mandates work trials for all job candidates
“We have everyone do work trials, so that, that scares them off.”