Kim Milosevich

CMO, a16z crypto · 4 appearances on the record.

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Kim Milosevich oversees brand, marketing, events, and communications for Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund, having previously served as VP of Communications at Coinbase through its direct listing. During her earlier tenure at a16z, she helped launch core content initiatives, including the a16z Podcast, alongside its bio and crypto funds.

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What they said12 Episodes4

Everything Kim Milosevich said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Milosevic: An effective PR firm requires more founder time, not less

“The reality is just because you're hiring a PR firm or consultant doesn't mean that it's going to be less time. If you have a good PR firm, a good consultant, it should be more of your time.”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 33:04 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

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Milosevic: Startup PR agencies should deliver reporter meetings within month one

“I think it's a warning sign if an agency puts together a plan and two months of that plan is just prep and getting up to speed and onboarding. It's like in those first, definitely within the first month, you should have at least a couple of meetings set up.”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:56 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

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Milosevic: Brands are defined by crisis response, not opportunistic marketing

“I think it's more like your brand is defined by how you handle these situations versus you taking a moment to say, how do we turn this into a brand opportunity?”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:34 a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications

Insight

Milosevic: Startup founders receive immense responsibility before developing crisis leadership skills

“These young companies, they're raising a lot of money. These founders are getting an immense amount of responsibility very quickly and very early, a lot of times before they have a chance to build their leadership skills and handle a lot of these situations.”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:29 a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications

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Milosevic: Employees should be informed of major stories before they break publicly

“One of the most important parts of this whole crisis scenario is what happens on the internal communication side. It is so important to be talking to the employees about what's going on. Ideally, they know if it's a big story that's going to break, they know a…”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:15 a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications

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Milosevic: Founder CEOs cannot separate personal scandals from company brand damage

“There is no division, and especially if you're a founder, CEO, you and the company are essentially the same, and even if the focus, let's say, of the stories are on the personal issue, you Guess what? Your company is going to be mentioned in every single one o…”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:26 a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications

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Milosevic: Pitching a turnaround narrative prematurely rehashes past crisis details

“Don't rush it. I think that's probably one of the biggest, you know, mistakes that companies make is by trying to do it too early when they don't have enough progress or milestones or growth to show that they have started to turn around. And they may put their…”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:29 a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications

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Milosevic: Public blog posts are effective internal communication tools for founders

“Using Medium as a vehicle to talk about what they're doing As a company, wasn't just useful for them to get it out there to the public, but was also a really useful vehicle for them to reinforce all this stuff internally. It's like, it's funny, it's all the sa…”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:59 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

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Milosevic: Startups facing strong incumbents should delay PR until establishing traction

“I see that happen more often when a small company is in a very, very competitive space with big incumbents who are innovating and could very quickly squash them if they wanted to. So it makes sense for some of those folks to really build the base, get the vira…”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:24 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

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Milosevic: $10,000 PR Retainers Do Not Make Sense for Seed Startups

“They want, you know, a minimum budget of, let's say, 10,000 dollars a month, which is tough for a very early stage company. And for a seed stage company, that probably doesn't make sense.”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:35 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

Insight

Milosevic: PR must advise strategic decisions, not just execute communications post-facto

“PR should be a really critical input instead of the decision being completely done, wrapped up, and then handed to PR to deal with.”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 40:46 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

Insight

Milosevic: Early startups must maximize rare funding and launch announcements

“You have very few moments especially in your early life as a company where you have news. And so when you're dealing with like a funding announcement, a company launch, a product launch, a big customer announcement, those are the announcements that you really …”

Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:23 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR

Appearances (4)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Reinventing Food	Jan 2, 2019	1m
a16z Podcast \| Crisis Communications	Jan 2, 2019	9m
a16z Podcast \| The Why, How, and When of PR	Jan 2, 2019	16m
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code	Jul 15, 2018	3m

Kim Milosevich

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