Outsourcing
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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4 statements about Outsourcing, every show
Weisbrot: Outsourcing removes quality control when founders lack domain expertise
“The problem is when you outsource, you're putting yourself in a position where you really don't have control over the quality because oftentimes you don't have the understanding and the expertise to know if the quality of the work or the cost for the work is c…”
Santalo: Outsourcing engineering to agencies usually increases cash burn
“The outsourcing usually increases the burn.”
Davenport: Automation will bring outsourced corporate work back in-house
“Well, we believe that organizations will continue to Exist and in fact may bring more of their work back in house than they have had over the past couple of decades that automation may take back a fair amount of the work that was distributed through outsourcin…”
When outsourcing fails, 90% of the time it is the delegator's fault
“I'm a big believer that if you make, if you give something to a competent outsource provider and they make a mistake, it's 90% of the time it is your fault because you didn't give them the information the right way or you didn't relay the task properly.”