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Sequoia's Data Team Stopped the Firm From Making Bad Investments
“Many of this, by the way, that, that we stopped Sequoia from investing where I think they would have otherwise invested. It was so close to investment.”
Narayanan Advised OpenAI to Prioritize Influence Over Stats Skills for Growth
“And when I talked to OpenAI, they asked me who should be hiring for the head of analytics and head of growth and so on. I said, oh, someone who's looking at a rocket ship, don't worry whether they are statisticians or their influence is the most important thin…”
Facebook's Advertiser Growth Team Targeted Headcount Over Direct Revenue
“For example, I'll take the example of Advertiser Growth. In Advertiser Growth that Facebook in the advertisers, we decided not to move The revenue metric, but decided to move the advertiser growth metric, because that's a metric that we actually could tangibly…”
Narayanan: Prioritizing current achievement over growth rate was my biggest hiring mistake
“Early on, the big mistakes that I used to make, and I make less of it now, I think I'd probably still make them, is I think about slope and asymptote. Asymptote is how good are you? Slope is how fast are you growing? And so what I would hire more for is People…”
Sequoia Classified All Portfolio Companies Into Eight Distinct Formulas
“What all the companies at Sequoia, for example, we can classify for the types of companies phase Sequoia had was eight different types of companies, e-commerce, two sided marketplaces you know, consumer subscription, consumer ads, and SaaS obviously, and so on…”