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Currier: Speed, quality, and hiring drive giant tech outcomes, not timing
“And that formula of speed, quality, and then hiring in a superior way, that's what makes your giant sort of outcomes in these tech spaces. And I, and first mover isn't typically correlated with that.”
Currier: Founders should use a number in every pitch sentence
“What I say to all the founders is when you're pitching the deal, especially for investors, you want to use a number in every sentence you speak. If you say a sentence without using a number, then you have wasted that sentence.”
Currier: Consumer viral growth is harder because psychological needs are satisfied
“What I say is the psychological and emotional needs of the consumer are largely being met, and it's more difficult Of those emotional and psychological needs that you could tap into to generate that viral storm, to build a new network, to build a new identity …”
Currier: Education should teach future prediction and leadership over history and sports
“We need to be teaching kids to ask the right questions. We need to be teaching kids to predict the future, not study history. We need to teach people to communicate and to lead, not to play soccer.”
Currier: Founders should design product language before building product features
“We believe that often you need to identify a problem Figure out the language that addresses that problem, and then from that language, build a product that fulfills on the language.”
Currier: Founders should pivot or shut down when out of excited experiments
“For me, it comes down to, do you have a list of experiments you still want to do and you're excited about. So you've had a vision, you've had an interest in a particular market space, and you've gotten fired up about it, you've started a company, you've tried …”
Currier: A founder's primary job is telling stories
“Yeah, you know, I feel like the CEO and the founders are, that's their main job, is to tell stories.”
Currier: Founders fail by pitching features instead of impact or money
“They most get it wrong because they talk about the solutions. As opposed to the impact on the people, or the amount of money that can be made.”
Currier: Peer KPI transparency drives higher founder growth targets
“So by cross populating information between companies so that it's real, it's not just James telling you should have a higher benchmark. It's you seeing others have achieved that higher benchmark and they are just like you. That really helps to let people calib…”