Best Practices
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Startups For the Rest of Us 
the Knowledge Project 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Top Founders
7 statements about Best Practices, every show
Ries: Standard startup best practices are actually value-destroying
“I actually think we've been misled by a whole package of what are today called best practices about how companies are to be built, structured, and governed. That are frankly value destroying.”
Ries: Traditional corporate governance 'best practices' destroy corporate value
“The thing I didn't really understand is how much evidence we have that these so-called best practices suck. They're like literally value destroying.”
Gaskill: Keep Claude.md Agent Context Files Under 200 Lines
“A best practice for those Claude.md files is to keep it around like no more than 200 lines.”
Sanwal: Best practices produce average results and will not build exceptional companies
“Best practices are for losers, full stop. They're for people who want to be average. Like, nobody who follows best practices builds great companies or builds exceptional companies.”
Lütke: 'Best practices' simply mean risk aversion and average performance
“Best practices actually just simply means don't take risk and do with what everyone else is saying you should be doing. Best practices are not that, like, good. Like, they should be best, no their average risk adjustment. Yeah, exactly. It's just average.”
Bazin: Sales reps can deviate from playbooks only if they overperform
“There, basically, there's a rule that if you overperform, you can do whatever you want. But if you cannot prove, you know, superior performance, then you have to, you know, stick to the best practices that we've set up and shared and everything.”