Chris O'Neill

Everything Chris O'Neill said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Disclosure

Chris O'Neill angel invests exclusively in Canadian startups, prioritizing founders

“Like, so I do some angel investing almost exclusively, actually exclusively in Canada when I think about it. And my test is a little, little more straightforward than that. It's the people. And I almost don't care what the market looks like. And I almost don't…”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 22:48 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Insight

Google's success stems from audacious goals and radical transparency

“Hiring great people, setting audacious goals and then really being open with them about what is important and why that's the formula for much of Google success”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 4:36 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Opinion

LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner is the best at defining corporate vision

“Jeff Wiener at LinkedIn, I think, is probably the best at doing this, right? Really being clear about a vision, and a mission, and strategy, and culture, and values.”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 7:47 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Assertion Supported

Evernote reached 220 million users while running on a shoestring budget

“You know, we have two hundred and twenty million users and we have a very like shoestring budgets.”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 15:02 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Insight

Scale hiring requires selecting for specific strengths over the absence of weakness

“Being really intentional about the one or two, sometimes three areas that are required for any role to really be world-class in hiring for the presence of those two or three things, as opposed to the absence of weakness early in a startup's history, you really…”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 17:04 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Disclosure

Evernote holds monthly product health meetings to decide what to kill

“We have a monthly product health meeting, and we talk about how products are doing in a very rigorous way, but we also talk about Things that maybe we should consider to stop doing.”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 12:03 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Assertion Supported

Evernote has users in every country, including the Vatican

“This is a company that literally exists in every country in the world, including regions like the Vatican.”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 14:11 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

20VC Prediction Held up

Evernote will expand its focus to team productivity software

“We've done great things throughout our relatively short history to unlock and become a superpower for individuals, and we look forward to doing the same thing for teams and really helping them be much, much, much more successful and productive and organized th…”

Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 23:30 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

The other half of the tape: Chris O'Neill's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 4

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Chris's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	CEO, GrowthLoop	1	8	100% 3/3	full record on 20VC →