General Manager
topic on 7 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes
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Rekhi: Founder CEOs must be the financial center, unlike corporate managers
“When you are a general manager at a large company of a division, you're not a financial center. Somebody else is doing the financial plan. In the startup, you know, the founder CEO has to be a financial center.”
Ferrari: Most Bending Spoons GMs running $50M–$100M businesses are under 30
“Most of our general managers who run businesses, on average, 50, a hundred million in revenue, so if they were a scale-up, they would be considered a large scale-up. Many of these people are like 27, 28. Most of them are, I think, very few are above 30.”
Guidara: Restaurant general manager salaries range from $90K to $180K
“And yet, and then the cost of that person these days is somewhere between, depending on what market you're in, 90,000 dollars to 180,000 dollars.”
Isenberg: Ideas die unless they have a dedicated GM or owner
“I will say ideas die unless they, you need an owner basically for an idea. And so that's something I've learned is unless I have like one GM or one person on this idea, The idea loses steam despite the funnel funnel guy.”
Mehta: Assign product units to GMs and shared platform surfaces to MDLs
“And so the dimensions we evaluate on are product or platform, and if it's product oriented, then that looks like a GM role. If it's going to be a little bit more platform or product platform is what I would characterize it. That looks like an MDL role. And so …”
Mehta: Group products by audience coherence to prevent roadmap conflict
“It makes logical sense that you would have all of those products basically under the same GM's remit, because when they are under different remits, you may have cognitive dissonance in roadmaps. So Put them all under one GM. So payroll, team management, shifts…”
Mehta: Standalone market products deserve their own GM and P&L
“This is a standalone product in the industry at large. And there are large incumbent behemoth companies out there that run this thing as a standalone product. And there's an entire company outside of Square. And so that should have its own GM. It should have i…”
Product organizations break when product managers must become general managers
“I think product words begin to break when the product manager job starts to morph into more of a general manager, you know, a GM job, you know, when, you know, companies, companies grow and product teams are forced to scale with that growth you know, product m…”
General managers must operate in background support roles to head coaches
“Most general managers in the league don't have the complete autonomy to do whatever they want to do. It's really a coach-based league, and it should be, because the coach is dealing with the players every single day. If the players think the coach doesn't have…”