Erica Brescia
On 2 shows, 1 appearance, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
2shows
1appearances
22statements
2resolved
2supported
0contradicted
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Everything Erica Brescia said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brescia: Saying 'yes' to everything is terrible advice for startup founders
“Honestly, it's terrible advice. Saying no to most of what comes your way is key to maintaining control over your time and focus.”
Brescia: Most founders waste excessive time on low-value operational chores
“Virtually every founder I know spends way too much time on operational items such as scheduling, finding and maintaining office space, setting up payroll and other things that are necessary, but not what really adds value to the business.”
Brescia: Founders will not get more free time as their companies grow
“It's really, really hard to take time off when you're building and growing a company, and I'll tell you that if you believe you'll have time someday when the company is larger and more established and has more employees, you're wrong. It's never the case.”
Brescia: Leaders must repeat important messages five times across five different formats
“Someone once told me, if you want folks to remember something, you have to tell them five times in five different ways, and I think that's a great way to think about it.”
Brescia: Keep acquisition discussions limited to the smallest possible group
“So it's best to keep the discussion within the smallest group of folks possible so you don't disrupt the business and create unnecessary stress and uncertainty for your team while you're working through the details.”
Brescia: Big-company sales leaders are often wrong for early-stage startups
“Someone coming out of a very large company not, might not be right for leading sales at a very small one where you need to develop a whole new playbook or build a funnel from zero. You need different types of skills at different times in your company's growth.”
Brescia: Extreme founder frugality and DIY chores severely slowed Bitnami's early growth
“You know, when I reflect on Bitnami, we tried to do way too much too early in the early days. I was literally doing everything. You hear this a lot, like, you know, founders take out the trash. I definitely did that. I did everything. I even cooked for the tea…”
Brescia: Scaling startups cannot give new executive hires time to level up
“You really don't have time to give a lot of time to executives to kind of
Get up to speed or level up.
Unfortunately, that's just not what you need an executive leader as you're as you're scaling a company and it's just time you can't afford to take.”
Brescia: Bitnami patched Heartbleed faster than major cloud vendors in some cases
“In fact, some cases we were faster at republishing our images than the cloud vendors were at rebuilding their own.”
Brescia: GitHub doubled headcount to over 2,300 employees since her arrival
“It's also been quite a whirlwind, as on top of everything that we've had happening in the world in 2020, we've also doubled in size since I joined, to over 2300 employees spread all over the world.”
Brescia: GitHub managed 2,000 remote employees and 50M developers in 2020
“We have offices and co-working spaces worldwide that had to close, eight active real estate projects to put on hold and redesign, over 2000 employees working remotely, vendors who are important to our culture but could no longer come to our offices, customers …”
Brescia: Interview unhireable top executives to define criteria for your open roles
“Go and meet as many exceptional folks for whatever role you're trying to fill as possible. Find the folks that are really at the On top of their game, even if there's no way you'll be able to hire them, and ask them about their roles, what it makes takes for s…”
Brescia: Obsessing over competitor moves usually just holds early startups back
“I think it's easy to get kind of tied up and too worried about what your competitors are doing and obsessing about them. And most of the times it will just hold you back.”
Brescia: Bitnami packages over 140 apps across 14 platforms
“So we package over a 140 different apps for 14 different platforms, and the way we currently make money is by selling to, ah, the cloud vendors themselves.”
Brescia: Bitnami drives over one million application deployments every single month
“We have over a million deployments a month at Bitnami.”
Brescia: Bitnami rebuilt all its application images in 36 hours during Heartbleed
“When Heartbleed hit, just to give you an example of a security issue that probably everybody remembers because it was pretty painful we rebuilt all of our images in under 36 hours and had them republished to all the marketplaces.”
Brescia: Bitnami supports 9 to 10 cloud vendors, including Huawei and Deutsche Telekom
“I mean, I think we have, it's something like nine or 10 cloud vendors, and then a few other platforms we support, and a few more on the way. There are more cloud vendors, certainly, but we're working with most of them in the U.S., and now we're just starting t…”
Brescia: Bitnami reached massive scale almost entirely bootstrapped, without venture capital
“We're bootstrapped. That's amazing. Almost entirely bootstrapped. So that gave us a source of funding without taking on venture capital.”
Brescia: Bitnami converted a $1M YC note without raising a Series A
“We took a million dollars when we went through Y Combinator in 2013, and we took about a million bucks in a convertible note, which is now just converted into equity from a bunch of people who are very smart and experienced operators who now serve as kind of a…”
Brescia: Centralizing COVID decisions would have crippled GitHub's response time
“If I had made every single one of the decisions on how to respond across every aspect of our business, it would have taken far too long to execute, and our customers and employees would have been left wondering where we were and what we were doing. We could ha…”
Brescia: Bitnami almost raised funding for an enterprise launch before its acquisition
“In the case of Bitnami, we were at a point where we were going to launch an enterprise Product. And we had been bootstrapping for a long time, and now we're going to need to raise funding or basically sell the company. And we went out to do the funding round i…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Erica's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | 1 | 8 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Top Founders → | |
 SAASTRLEDGER | 0 +1 | 14 | — | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |