Company

“We're going to measure every company by the best possible experience that we've had.”

“If you have lots of acronyms, the odds are you're upside down as a company. Because acronyms are things that people do when they want to create in cultures and out cultures. By definition. So if you have acronyms, the odds are what you have done is create so m…”

“From my perspective, the way to start in a business introducing agents to a company is to give each person their own agent.”

“Everybody just naturally thinks inside out, me and my company and my product out into the world. Don't think that way. Think in terms of, like, what are the most interesting things happening in the world, and then how do those things relate to us?”

“My experience is that your company is only going to go as far as your CEO goes in AI, and it's not something you can delegate.”

“But I'd say the vast majority of people should keep it for a while at least as long as they're engaged in the company, right?”

“No one at the company ever has been let go because they made too many mistakes. It's never happened. I've, I have personally never done it. I've never, ever fired someone or anything like that because they made too many mistakes.”

“If you get those right as a founder, like, the payoff from that will go for decades. And if you get those wrong, like, even if your company succeeds, you're going to live with those sins forever. They're gonna extrapolate out.”

“And really the importance of like knowing yourself, and then you're not gonna be successful unless you can build a company that's a reflection of you. You know, essentially like a an echo or a shadow of the founder.”

“If a company just fired 50% of its people quietly, it's going to zero.”

“The lesson that punches you in the stomach in venture is you can't make a company succeed.”

“Most of the knowledge, I should say, like, 90% of the knowledge inside the company is private in some shape or form inside, within your company.”

“What I'm telling you is in the next three years, I'm sure someone will start a company that's going to be worth a trillion dollars.”

“I feel like the question of defensibility probably is going to come up much sooner in a company's lifetime than it's ever done before.”

“A company can grow to a certain point, And because the founder thinks that he or she are the only solution or the only one that can make these decisions, it tends to peter out.”

“No, my baby lives in my house. A company is a collection of assets and people that work together. To maximize shareholder value. And as a founder, remember that your value in a financial sense is really that the equity that, that you hold.”

“And you realize if the company calls you back, the company sucks.”

“So like my only like good litmus test for that or like red flag is if a leader comes in and they're starting to make a bunch of changes without deeply, deeply, deeply understanding the company or the company's problems and without bringing like real humility, …”

“Ultimately if we've got to align the company's progress with their progress, because if they don't make progress, they will leave.”

“Almost any company will give employees a percentage of the business if they're valuable enough.”

“Your company's not your product, because your product, you have to make a bunch of judgment calls, and you're making stuff up, basically, as you go along, but your company, there is, you know, standards for that, or at least frameworks for it.”

“I do not like to lead with discounting. It is a disservice to the customer and to the company and to you as a rep to lead with discount.”

“I have never found that any investment we've made ever, or really any, I've never seen any VC Be truly the difference between success and failure of a company. Period.”

“The atomic structure of a company is the meetings and the decisions.”

“Building a company, it feels like it's big moments, but it's more a game of inches.”

“When you're looking at, you know, in your own company problems, a lot of problems arise from, you know, people in the company. It's not like external forces most of the time. It's mainly the people that you're interacting with on a daily basis”

“It's not going to be solved By some people in a company somewhere. That's not how it's going to work. It's something that society as a whole needs to engage with, because that's the nature of the transformation which is working.”

“I, I'm proud to say that, you know, we started the company that basically landed the first ever commercial reentry capsule, you know, on a U S soil. With also a new regulatory regime used at part four 50 with the FAA.”

“A company needs someone to go out and get the temperature of the world.”

“Often the founder is the limiting factor to growing the company because she thinks that she can do it all.”

“The company's either going to work or not work. And you are not the reason for either of those two things. If anything, you're the reason it's not going to work.”

“For some reason, we just sort of attribute all of the success of that company to, like, this person must be a winner because that company is a winner, even if they had very little to do with the winning of that company.”

“And I believe if you want your company to stand the test of time, you need to keep things simple without letting them stay the same.”

“You get much better sales organization when you have full alignment in the entire company so that everybody works, you know, for sales effectively. We always say that we're all working for sales here. Because they're the tip of the spear and the rest of us are…”

“If you don't get strong enough conviction to be almost uninfluencible, it's very hard to build a company”

“So the company currently has got about three, eight, 3405 hundred crores, 3400 crores, I think, of cash in the books.”

“The biggest value add, I think, that I've You know, a VC can have on a company is really just to be there for the bad times and just be a friend in the good times.”

“Rohan of Apigames is dear friend, has been a mentor. Also an investor in the company.”

“Anyone who's worth being an advisor probably should have 25 to 50,000 dollars to put into your company.”

“I think a fair statement is that the founders built the company in the image of what they saw at the Stanford Graduate School.”

“It's much easier to add something to a company than it is to remove something from a company. And so if you can only add, never remove, you're gumming up the system after a while.”

“You can't build a company made entirely of misfits that, that scale.”

“He bought 30% of the company. It's in the paper now, so it's okay to talk about it. He paid forty-five million for 30% of the company. It was an understanding that he had a right over three years to buy 85% of the company at some point.”

“Everyone pays lip service to innovation, but innovation costs you a lot. Innovation is a, if you want this, every single, like, solving any single problem in a company is tenix as hard as it is if you don't.”

“Like a company that makes no choices of what people they want to So there, make, I mean, again, you end up with a full-on bell curve, and therefore you're gonna end up with a full-on average results because the potential for agreement is extremely tiny if you …”

“What's best for the person is not necessarily best for the company, and what's best for the person is not best for their career.”

“If you don't have a lot of money, sell a company. If you, if that means that you're, like, financially secure, But then after that, oftentimes try not to sell anything ever.”

“Look, I think it, you know, the point of a company is to produce useful products and services for your fellow human beings. It is not you know, some political gathering place or a thing where it, that's the point of a company.”

“When ConAgra bought the company in 2017, they also acquired that old kettle.”

“Anchor led the company until their reported two hundred and fifty million dollar acquisition to Hotmart in 2020.”

“There are perhaps 50 people that are capable, that have shown previous, like, head of growth experience, and they're not going to join your company until they've seen that you've already prioritized growth and shown that you value it.”

“Some of the input you're getting is really selfish by the investors from their perspective, but not good for the company.”

“If you cannot afford to be without resource or with some resource on the side for 24 months, if you're gonna give up before 24 months, don't even start. Because that's what it will take for you to start having a company.”

“A good board member should be a shock absorber for the company, because there will be shocks, and people will be rattled, and there will be all kinds of crazy things happening, and just slowing the process a little bit down, and like guiding the leadership int…”

“I think the much more often I do see there being advisor shares that wind up being, I'll say the ranges I've seen are between half a percent and one percent of the company, depending on the stage it's at.”

“What I found is that when you replace the CEO involuntarily, you almost always make the company worse.”

“From my point of view, a few small nudges left or right can change the trajectory of a company by hundreds of percent.”

“So I think ever since we entered, company has grown three X.”

“I think the mistake board members make is they say things because they want to, like, sound smart and impress the other board members as opposed to saying things because they know what the reaction might be, and how it might affect how the company operates goi…”

“The interesting trajectory of that is that early in the life of a company, the product does matter a ton. As the company starts to grow and develop, the great founding CEOs start to view the company itself as the product. So they evolved from being product foc…”