Execution
topic on 12 shows · 21 statements across 21 episodes
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21 statements about Execution, every show
Saxena: The difference between a visionary and a con man is execution
“The difference between a visionary and a con man is execution. Right? If you commit to something and you show up and deliver it and it works really well, great, like you'll come across as a visionary, but if it doesn't, Then you're a con man, right?”
Jones: Information Overload Distracts Macro Traders from Exquisite Execution
“I think today, for me at least, It's just a lot, lot harder, I think, because the information overload distracts me from exquisite execution.”
Sanchez: Due to AI, execution is no longer the hard part
“In some ways, the execution now is not the hard part. It's like, what idea are you gonna do?”
Kanter: Execution is definitely not a moat in software
“Very common thing people say in software in, in, in venture. Oh, the only execution, the only mode is execution, which is not, which is definitely not a mode.”
Walling: Startup ideas are not worthless and inherently vary in quality
“We've been told that ideas are worthless and it's all about execution. And we know that's not true. We know there are some ideas that are just better than others.”
Gibson: New Hires Over-Index on New Ideas Over Execution
“One thing that people do when they join a company is sometimes they try and rely too much on I'm going to bring completely new ideas rather than executing on what the team really need them to get done. I would say a lot of our time goes into, we just need to e…”
Bendov: A good strategy with 80% execution will still win
“The most important thing for the company is the strategy. So I think if the execution is like 80%, okay, and a good strategy, you will still win.”
Song: Startup success is driven by execution over untapped market discovery
“Execution has become more important than ever. And it's not so much about like idea discovery or like untapped market discovery anymore. It's just a question of pick your poison on how difficult, you know, it will be. But I think every space now is really chal…”
Narayana: Rapid tech pace makes execution and distribution the only true moats
“Today the pace at which technology is going, it's very hard to have 12, 24, 36 month lead up in the market. Everybody has an idea, right? That whole execution of that idea will make the biggest difference. And if execution becomes your biggest moat, then your …”
Wittenborn: Macro growth drivers matter far more than execution
“And so I believe that those companies benefit from growth drivers that are much more meaningful than any execution.”
Alströmer: Strategy does not matter for early-stage startups
“When you are a small startup, strategy does not matter because there's not that much of strategy is about. Maybe later on, it might be a fault to think about strategy, but strategy kind of assumes that you can do multiple things at the same time, which small s…”
Early-stage product teams should prioritize execution over impact
“Most early stage teams should actually optimize for execution. Right. Assuming that they have come up with a reasonable hypothesis about what's going to win, their main emphasis Net needs to be on execution because you will not see impact readily on a one week…”
Latka: Execution, not business planning, is the true indicator of startup success
“That is not the success indicator of a business. It's, can you go execute?”
Bloom: Execution and action bias are now the scarce resources in entrepreneurship
“And it used to be that capital was scarce to go start these things because it was so expensive. Now capital is abundant. The capacity is abundant. You can go and try all these things. All of the technology to try them is abundant. What's scarce then in my mind…”
Isaacson: Da Vinci abandoned conceptual projects when execution risked imperfection
“Sometimes the conception was more important to him than the execution, and when the execution became hard, or became something he didn't feel that he could hit out of the park, he just left it at the conceptual stage.”
Parrish: Centralizing power lets leaders blame execution when things fail
“By keeping the power, we also have the excuse that somebody didn't execute properly, you know, like, you know, so we have, not only do we have this story in the narrative of how important we are on one hand, we also have the story in the narrative where when t…”
Zafar recommends Bossidy and Charan's book 'Execution' for running a company
“Great book. People don't talk about it. That's an excellent book. It tells you how to run a company.”
VCs assess founders on pitch skill and pedigree, not execution
“And very often VCs assess people based on those meetings, just basically by how well you talk. And also based on your resume, especially at the early stage, when you don't have a whole lot to show, Do you have pedigree or do you not have pedigree? VCs don't ac…”
Gurfein: Financial Leaders Excel at Pro Formas but Fail at Execution
“A lot of times organizations misunderstand their business strategy versus their execution in that they'll divine or develop to find a great business model based upon financial success, but the implementation and the execution with the personnel escapes them. A…”
Altman: Great startup execution requires saying no 97% of the time
“Unfortunately, the trick to great execution is to say no a lot. You know, you're saying no 97 times out of a hundred. And most founders find that they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.”