BetterCloud
company on 2 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 24 times in 4 episodes since 2016
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- 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud
- 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
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BetterCloud CEO David Politis advises Kuvama on category building
“Yes, we have a relationship with somebody called David Politis, who is a CEO of BetterCloud. He's been helping with a bit of advice, a lot of kind of experience in building a category and what that meant.”
Politis: Recruiting and retaining employees via perks is lazy and unhealthy
“In general, I feel like incentivizing or recruiting or retaining people through perks is, is pretty lazy. I think it's superficial. It's unhealthy.”
Startup culture breaks down at 80 employees without deliberate management
“When you get to 80, 90, a hundred people, that's at least where I've seen it, if you're not deliberate about it breaks down. It breaks down because there's just, especially if you think about how many people you've been hiring and how fast, usually at that poi…”
BetterCloud requires leaders to share 360 feedback and weaknesses with team
“The key part of this is that the leader has to then take that feedback, good, bad, and ugly, and show it to their entire team. And with that feedback, they also have to tell them what they're going to do to work on their weaknesses.”
BetterCloud caused culture shock by introducing ten HR programs simultaneously
“We made a mistake in is we got so excited about being deliberate. We made 80 changes that, you know, I don't know, we made something like we put in 10 people programs at once over a period of a couple months, and it was shock. It just shocked everyone. It was …”
Politis failed to articulate BetterCloud's 10-year vision in early fundraising
“I did not do a good job in any round. Really articulating the really, really big vision for BetterCloud. I kind of take this under-promise, over-deliver approach, and I'm just conservative in, in my approach in general, in planning and in, in everything. And s…”