Tom Lehman
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Tom Lehman · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019
Lehman: External experts and investors cannot solve a startup's hardest problems
“Whenever we had a hard problem and we went into a meeting with a lawyer or an investor or a YC partner or some kind of expert thinking, this is the meeting where someone's going to tell us like what to do. And it's so great that we have access to this. It just…”
Jan 2, 2019
Lehman: Don't execute grand upfront plans; build products incrementally
“It's called Seeing Like a State by Jim Scott, and it basically sort of is a long argument against sort of making a grand plan, And then trying to execute it, and it's just, it's gonna go awry, so don't make a grand plan, do an incremental thing.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Lehman: New employees should trust their intuition when something seems broken
“Everything you think that's messed up is actually messed up. Like there's a tendency, you come into a place, you see something messed up, you think, oh, it's me, like I'm not seeing the real deal, like I must not know what's up. No, if you think it's messed up…”
Jan 2, 2019
Lehman: Always choose to do the task you least want to do
“Yeah, so run into the spike is basically the idea that whenever you're trying to decide what to do, you should do the thing you don't want to do. So there's always, when you're making a decision, you're like, well, it's this or that, and like, I know what I wa…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive