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Jaswa: Past operating experience is largely irrelevant when advising founders
“I think the biggest mistake operators make when they give advice to founders is it's purely out of the lens of their experience in the environment and the circumstances with the tools and the capabilities that they had available to them. And all those macro th…”
Jaswa: Joining a $10B startup as employee 500 won't yield generational wealth
“You don't make generational wealth if you're employee 500 at a ten billion dollar company.”
Jaswa: 98% of struggling startups should strip to core and take moonshots
“So basically I think this will be true for what I might, again, I'm just making this up at 98% of these companies. Strip the business down to the core. So you generate whatever, you know, whatever that means. Don't waste more time on it if it's not working. An…”
Jaswa: Remote work deprives employees of learning by observing senior leaders
“And I think that's actually the biggest thing that's missing from remote work is there are things that I learned from watching working for some of the best people in our business or other businesses”
Jaswa: Former operators give flawed advice based on outdated experience
“I think the biggest mistake operators make when they give advice to founders is it's purely out of the lens of their experience in the environment and the circumstances with the tools and the capabilities that they had available to them. All those macro things…”
Jaswa: The biggest loss in remote work is passive leadership mentorship
“And I think that's actually the biggest thing that's missing from remote work. There are things that I learned from working for some of the best people in our business or other businesses.”
Jaswa: Silicon Valley startups have refocused on hard work and execution
“Over the last six or nine months, the idea of hard work being the priority of a startup, it's back to the top of the list, that your job is to fight for customers and build cool products and recruit the best people, and this doesn't sound like rocket science, …”