technical advisory board
also referred to as: technical advisory boards
12 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Arnie Goldberg · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Goldberg: Technical advisory boards provide unvested outside perspectives on engineering choices
“I needed smart people from the outside that didn't have a lot of vested interest in the solution or weren't going to be there necessarily to deal with the consequences, to just bring some informed opinions from their experience into some tough technical choice…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Padmanaban: Technical advisory boards yield unexpected deal referrals and key hires
“Many of them ended up getting, getting, giving referrals to other deals, as well as really helped in some of the hiring decisions. I didn't, I, that was not my stated goal at all, but we were looking for some technical experts, and they had access to the pool,…”
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Goldberg: Technical advisory boards should debate decisions, not grant approvals
“It's not to present something and get approval, but it's to debate a point and to debate something that, that is worthwhile enough to, you know, get all these people, high power people from, you know, across the Valley or whatever, into a room together and mak…”
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Roeder: Technical advisory boards work best with informal, real-time problem solving
“I think the best arrangements are when The company's just super, not too formal about it, just really honest about what they're, instead of, oh, I have a technical advisory board meeting next week, oh shoot, like I have to think of an agenda, and now it's a to…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Roeder: Unfocused technical advisory board meetings impose productivity taxes on engineers
“So, if you're gonna invite other people in, be really sure that they know why they're there, and I mean, I sit on these things to help. There's really no other reason. Like, it's fun and interesting, and you meet smart people, and you're there to help. So when…”
Jan 2, 2019
Goldberg: Disband technical advisory boards when actionable problems are lacking
“It's okay to disband these things if they become, it's actually, if people appreciate it, even though the, you know, the people in a room have fun hanging out with each other If there's not real actionable things that have to come out of it, you're wasting eve…”
Jan 2, 2019
Goldberg: Box failed to cycle off unproductive advisors due to missing clauses
“And so, you know, what happens if you have vocal advisors, and so this is also where it goes back to the point about refreshing the board every couple of years, because I got advisors on that seemed great on paper, but didn't contribute and so I would have lov…”
Jan 2, 2019
Roeder: Evaluate potential technical advisors by presenting real company problems
“Giving, you know, giving real problems that you're working on is, is one of the better ways to understand, get real signal from people, so I would just talk about where the company is, why you're putting it together, some of the things you're grappling with, a…”