board member

“Ah, because yes, they're executive search firms, but actually they place the minority of board members.”

“You don't, you totally agree, you don't want to tell them how to do strategy. I would never do that. And they're going to be better at it. I actually like to think in an early stage company you shouldn't be telling them how to do strategy either”

“The board member frames things in their mind very differently from people inside the company, and so you can often ask a question that was just coming at such a different angle from people immersed in the day-to-day that it's really useful to them. So, and I t…”

“One thing that's been a learning process for me is, for both the boards I'm on as a CMO, I could jump in and say, Here's how you should run these areas of marketing, but as a board member, I'm going to be much more effective if I just ask questions and listen.…”

“Being a board member makes me a better CEO.”

“So it was the opposite of looking for industry domain recruiting, and it was much more driven to this I'd say orthogonal thinking, as well as people who shared a common core values.”

“I was so focused on getting the people who had been big in my industry before so that I could advertise that now I had them. I, I'd much rather have the one who wasn't the biggest today, but the one that was the right fit with me, that wanted to go and fight t…”

“Over the last 10 years, that's really shifted, and more of our boards have more common shareholders, more founder and, you know, employee-led board members then do, then they have preferred shareholders.”

“And that's why, I mean, my advice you know, when you pick board members, and by this a very, I'm turning something that's generic into a very narrow things, I think a good place to go is find people who've already gone through a crisis. Because to me, people w…”