Sam Corcos
15 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2023 by Sam Corcos · across every show →
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Nov 1, 2023
Sam Corcos blocks off quarterly 'think weeks' disconnected from all communications
“I block off one week per quarter. I just directly stole this from Bill Gates to do a think week where I don't engage in email. I don't engage in comms. I just focus on thinking about strategy, and it often takes me two or three days to see the forest.”
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Nov 1, 2023 positive
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Founders should eliminate to-do lists and schedule tasks directly on calendars
“The biggest thing to do is to get rid of your to-do list and put all of your action items on your calendar. Block off the amount of time that you think it's going to take. You have a to-do list. Everyone has a list of things that they want to do, and just tran…”
Nov 1, 2023
Corcos: Co-founder CEOs must be 80% good at almost every business function
“And so I think the nature of being a co-founder CEO is you have to be 80% good at basically everything. It's kind of a strange role. You have to be able to write a passable growth strategy and a passable clinical strategy and a clinical, you have to be able to…”
Nov 1, 2023 neutral
Nov 1, 2023 positive
Corcos: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang manages roughly 40 direct reports
“He has something like 40 direct reports, which is crazy, but he does it in such a way that it's not super burdensome, and the intent behind it, from what I understand, is that the closer you get to the ultimate decision maker, the faster decisions get made.”
Nov 1, 2023
Corcos: Software product quality deteriorates when leadership is detached from building
“I think when you have a software product, I think having leadership who knows how to build software is really important, and the further away you get from the actual building of what it is that your product is the worse your product is ultimately going to be.”
Nov 1, 2023
Founders cannot evaluate executives without knowing how to do their jobs
“Your ability to assess and know whether they are the right people, if you're willing to put that to luck, then sure, you can just hope that you hired the right person, and you have no way of assessing the quality of their work output. If you can write a strate…”
Dec 6, 2023 positive
Corcos cancels 1-on-1s with direct reports if no agenda is prepared
“If I have one-on-ones scheduled for all of my direct reports, but I've made it very clear and everyone's on the same page that a one-on-one calendar hold is not an entitlement. It is a hold so that I don't double book myself. And if there's nothing on the agen…”
Dec 6, 2023 positive
Dec 6, 2023