Dan Warmenhoven

7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Dan Warmenhoven · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Warmenhoven: Boards exist for company success, not CEO personal development
“The board is not there to help you be successful. The board is there to help the company be successful. You are expendable. Just keep that in mind. The amount of time you should spend on your personal development in a board meeting is zero.”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:20 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Warmenhoven: The ideal public company board size is exactly eight directors
“Once you're public, I would guess it's probably about eight, the CEO plus seven others. I mean, you gotta have financial experts and comp committees and all the rest of that stuff, but any more than eight is just, I mean, it's just too many.”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:26 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Warmenhoven: Co-founders and direct reports must be excluded from board executive sessions
“Since all those issues are performance related, it's really awkward to have one of the CEOs direct reports in the room. And you find a lot of board structures that start off with a CEO and a technical founder or whatever, a co-founder. Get them off. Get them o…”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:57 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Warmenhoven: Start board meetings with an unscripted, closed-door CEO report
“I encourage every CEO of every board I'm on to start the meeting that way. It's a private meeting. It's a closed-door session. It's a CEO report. What it's labeled as is no materials in advance. It's all verbal.”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:47 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Warmenhoven: Adding more than one outside director before Series B is excessive
“Any more than one outsider until you get to Series B is maybe too many mouths to feed.”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:21 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Warmenhoven: Former operators on boards effectively mediate between competing VCs
“Having somebody who's actually been an operating guy, et cetera, I think has got a lot of value, and they also can be a mediary between the various venture capitalists and ways that a CEO can't, right?”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:31 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Warmenhoven: Best board meetings minimize routine updates to discuss strategic issues
“I find the best meetings are those which are very succinct around mundane, And leave lots of time for the meaty subjects.”
Dan Warmenhoven Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:13 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
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