David Politis

Everything David Politis said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Insight

Politis: Recruiting and retaining employees via perks is lazy and unhealthy

“In general, I feel like incentivizing or recruiting or retaining people through perks is, is pretty lazy. I think it's superficial. It's unhealthy.”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 11:30 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

20VC Insight

Startup culture breaks down at 80 employees without deliberate management

“When you get to 80, 90, a hundred people, that's at least where I've seen it, if you're not deliberate about it breaks down. It breaks down because there's just, especially if you think about how many people you've been hiring and how fast, usually at that poi…”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 14:09 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

20VC Disclosure

BetterCloud requires leaders to share 360 feedback and weaknesses with team

“The key part of this is that the leader has to then take that feedback, good, bad, and ugly, and show it to their entire team. And with that feedback, they also have to tell them what they're going to do to work on their weaknesses.”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 17:42 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

20VC Disclosure

BetterCloud caused culture shock by introducing ten HR programs simultaneously

“We made a mistake in is we got so excited about being deliberate. We made 80 changes that, you know, I don't know, we made something like we put in 10 people programs at once over a period of a couple months, and it was shock. It just shocked everyone. It was …”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 19:00 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

20VC Insight

Politis: VCs do not mean it when saying 'stay in touch'

“When people said, oh, this is interesting, you know, stay in touch. I thought they actually meant this is interesting. Stay in touch. They don't, you know, they don't at all.”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 20:26 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Politis failed to articulate BetterCloud's 10-year vision in early fundraising

“I did not do a good job in any round. Really articulating the really, really big vision for BetterCloud. I kind of take this under-promise, over-deliver approach, and I'm just conservative in, in my approach in general, in planning and in, in everything. And s…”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 23:23 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Politis became Vocalocity CEO after the firm laid off almost everyone

“Six months after starting that job, they ended up letting go of everyone in the company except for me and one engineer, and so the two of us were left there to build this business. They actually made me CEO of the company.”

David Politis Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 3:37 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

The other half of the tape: David Politis's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

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Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Founder & Executive Chairman, BetterCloud	1	7	0% 0/1	full record on 20VC →