Margit Wennmachers
35 statements across 7 episodes · 6 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2018 by Margit Wennmachers · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Aug 14, 2018 positive
Aug 14, 2018 positive
Aug 14, 2018
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Margit Wennmachers: Transparent corporate culture speeds up crisis recovery
“I think I would say there's the plan, which I would encourage everyone to create one, even if it goes out the window the minute something happens, but there's also the cultural component, because often in a crisis, there's a lot of hiding under the desk and de…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Margit Wennmachers: Companies will proactively communicate cybersecurity strategy in core messaging
“I actually think we're going to come full circle, and I think companies will be out in front, and they're going to talk about their security strategy. They're going to admit that there's no such thing as 100% foolproof security, but they are going to make that…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Margit Wennmachers: Crisis teams fail with too many lawyers and PR people
“Because I think in many cases you kind of have a crisis team, but you don't always have all the right people on the team, right? You often, sometimes you have too many lawyers or too many PR people or too many people who tell you what you want to hear, right?”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Margit Wennmachers: Security product buyers still insist on keeping security setups secret
“So through the lens of the portfolio companies, we have quite a few who sell security products. I have not seen a change in stance from their customer base. I think there's still sort of, you know, we want to keep that stuff secret.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: PR agencies should be benchmarked on network, not domain knowledge
“Well, the whole fricking point is that they can help translate this very wonky thing that you do to an audience that will then write it down, have to write it down in plain English to an even broader audience, right? So you don't want to benchmark them on how …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: Find roles that value your features instead of hiding your bugs
“Like, everybody has features and bugs in Silicon Valley parlance, right? Like, I have a lot of bugs, but you've got to find the place where the features are valued, right? And you're going to be successful in those jobs and not in others, right?”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: Never waste a crisis; use it to improve the company
“The golden principle is to never waste a crisis, because something is happening at or to the company, that's about for customers, employees, or whatever the case may be. And then It's an opportunity to make the company better, better as a result.”
Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: Without prior goodwill credits, company mistakes immediately cause trust deficits
“Yeah, that's sort of in my head, like, you basically have a bank account of Goodwill, right? You have credits and debits, and if you If you don't build up any credits with your community, whether they be customers or employees or investors or press or whatever…”
Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: Establish internal comms before crises to maintain trust through legal silences
“I will also say you ought to start an internal communications cadence very early on. Don't wait for the crisis. You want to have built trust with the employees because let's say there's a lawsuit. Your company all of a sudden is in a lawsuit. You feel it's com…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: Proactively helping respected peers is key to securing board seats
“For folks who are trying to get to the invitation of being on a board, I think one good path is just to be insanely helpful to a set of people that you respect, right? Because that, that's just, you kind of show the work and action is, is I think maybe a good …”
Nov 26, 2025 positive
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Most executive business books are fancy resumes rather than practical guides
“Most books, like whoever the guy was from this and that, GE, whatever, they were all kind of fancy resumes and victory labs. They weren't really. Where you could learn something, particularly for our audience, that, like, it's so rough and tumble to be in a st…”
Nov 26, 2025
Mainstream media now reacts at the end of social news cycles
“They used to set the tone, and now they're at the very end. At the very end of all the stuff that's been said on Twitter, or Reddit, or, it eventually spills out, and then media is like, oh, what is this thing? But like, it's at the very end, right? And that, …”
Nov 26, 2025 neutral
Nov 26, 2025 negative