The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Rowghani: Raising too much capital early damages startups by removing urgency
“There are many startups that actually, I think have been damaged simply because of the amount of capital that they've been able to raise. You know, I was a CFO earlier in my career and you need enough capital to be able to take risks and make mistakes, et cete…”
Rowghani: A great team is more important than a great idea
“A great team is more important than a great idea. And I think in Hollywood, like everyone's chasing scripts and ideas and this, that, and the other thing. And Pixar is just focused on the quality of the team that it's able to put together. The idea being a gre…”
Rowghani: Twitter grew from zero to $2B revenue during his tenure
“And when I left about five years later, we went from no revenue to two billion dollars in revenue.”
Rowghani: Steve Jobs was the most impressive executive in any room
“He was hands down the most impressive executive inside a room that I've ever been around.”
Rowghani: Founders hiring executives should first meet five top practitioners
“I know founders who, for instance, have never hired a CFO before, and before they launch their CFO hiring process, they will make it a point to meet the five best CFOs that they can be introduced to. Not to recruit them, but to just get a sense of the texture …”
Rowghani: Unlike operational decisions, venture capital investments cannot be reversed
“The biggest challenge is, as an operator, almost every decision you make, you can either test at small scale to see if it works, Or reverse it if it doesn't work. And as an investor, once you've made an investment, there's really no reversing it. There's no su…”