Jeff Lawson
10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2023 by Jeff Lawson · across every show →
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Jeff Lawson: Iterative work unlocks value while multi-year projects fail
“The nature of agility has really entered not just the software development world, but like the business parlance, which is you're no longer embarking on multi-year projects because those always tended to fail. Instead, you kind of work more iteratively and tha…”
Apr 3, 2023 bullish
Jeff Lawson: Future company offices will be showrooms, offsites, and coffee shops
“I personally believe that the future of a company like ours, I think that the company's offices are going to consist of three different types of locations. I think you'll have number one, like a showroom, the place where you bring customers or like recruits or…”
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Apr 3, 2023 neutral
Lawson: Prolonged low interest rates conditioned a generation to ignore profits
“The last business cycle, the boom time, the low interest rate environment went on for a pretty historically long time. So there's a lot of people. In the workforce, for example. Who have never seen a high interest rate environment in their career. And that cre…”
Apr 3, 2023 positive
Apr 3, 2023
Jeff Lawson explored building a GPS item tracker in 2000
“We said, well, if you're always losing your keys or your car or your whatever, couldn't we put a GPS chip and a, like a pager radio
Into a small package and let you just keep track of where things are. And this was in 2000. Called the thing locator. And so we…”
Apr 3, 2023 neutral
Versity raised a $1M friends and family round during college
“Well, we raised first a C like friends and family rounds. We raised money from people we knew and Kevin participated and a few other folks like that. And that was while we were still full-time students, we raised about, if I remember, a million dollars.”
Apr 3, 2023
CollegeClub burned roughly $50M monthly before its canceled 2000 IPO
“They're like, yeah, we've been burning, you know, fifty million dollars a month or some ungodly number. And now that we're not going public, we don't, we're not, we don't have the money. And so we've got to reduce our burn, like, immediately.”