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Fried: Continuous back-to-back sprints do not work at work
“And that's why I don't like the word because you can't layer that back to back to back to back. You cannot sprint back to back to back to back in life. And you can't do it at work. I mean, people do it at work, but like, I don't think it actually works.”
Crafting elaborate narrative stories for individual sprints is wasted effort
“We don't need to create this complicated story for the next sprint. I'd say that it's, that's too much of an effort, maybe a waste of time. Usually you need to look a bit further out to make it worse. Spending a lot of time on creating your story.”
Grinda: Zingy scaled revenue from $1M to $200M in three years
“We went from one million in revenues in O-two to five million in O-three, but most of that in Q-four, and so the most important date in my life professionally, in fact, probably to this date, is August 15 of 2003, when the check from Sprint
Mobile arrived for …”
Masa Son acquired Brightstar on condition Claure became Sprint CEO
“He offered to buy Brightstar with only one condition, and that condition was that I would become the CEO of Sprint.”
Claure: Sprint Was Losing $5B Annually When He Took Over as CEO
“Sprint was losing five billion dollars a year.”
Claure: Sprint Cut $11B in Costs Under His Leadership
“We basically reduced eleven billion dollars of cost, and we figured that we could do a lot more with a lot less people, a lot less just bureaucracy.”
McGurk: Premature exclusive deals with telecom giants like Verizon have killed startups
“I've seen companies die over it, literally. Yep. So doing a deal with Verizon and you can never do another, at a, too early of a stage. You know, not being able to then do a deal with, You know, AT&T or Sprint or anyone else.”
Herold: Sprint pays $160,000 annually for one monthly executive coaching call
“My starting point is 80,000 a year is my starting entry point with any of the clients. And then I have up from there, depending on the size. So I coach the second in command of sprint. So they're paying double that. And I just do one call a month with them.”