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Mike Swartz

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Mike Swartz · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Swartz: Process design is easy; organizational buy-in and soft skills are hard
“What's counterintuitive is that it's really the soft stuff that's hard. It's not the hard stuff that's hard. So, you know, figuring out the process and figuring out what needs to get done is actually the easy part of the job. The hard part is getting the buy-i…”
Mike Swartz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:17 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Swartz: Established companies fail to understand metric variation and rely on averages
“And even well-established companies I work with, Don't understand variation. They do everything off of means.”
Mike Swartz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:03 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Swartz: Granular conversions of top-down dollar sales forecasts are always wrong
“You get a sales plan that's expressed in dollars, and then somebody tries to convert that to orders, and then they may extrapolate that to units, and they may take a monthly sale plan and then try to water it down to a weekly or a daily or sometimes by shift p…”
Mike Swartz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 53:49 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Swartz: Smaller startups will increasingly compete with Amazon on service
“The Amazons of the world are going to have a lot of competition from smaller startups on the service front.”
Mike Swartz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 48:03 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Swartz: Spent 80% of his workday recruiting during hyper-growth phases
“I underestimated how much time you have to spend recruiting and hiring, you know. I would spend 80% of my day sometimes interviewing and trying to find the right people”
Mike Swartz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:57 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
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