Anneka Gupta
10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 10, 2024 by Anneka Gupta · across every show →
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Oct 10, 2024 positive
Gupta: Emotional detachment from discarded work is essential for pivoting
“Is figuring out how do you detach yourself from the work that you've done and from what has already happened and say, well, we're learning something new. We're going to pivot our focus to this totally new thing and do that over and over and over again. You had…”
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Gupta: Horizontal moves accelerate upward career trajectory faster than vertical climbing
“I have told people many times, giving them career advice, that moving horizontally within the company is incredibly valuable, and a lot of people think about their career and career growth as like, I have to just keep moving up and up and up, instead of thinki…”
Oct 10, 2024
Gupta: New enterprise products only need one killer differentiating feature to sell
“One thing that I've learned and I've learned this from our CEO rubric and I, it's, Just really gotten embedded into the way that I operate is that you need to just have one killer differentiating feature that you can sell on to begin with. So whatever that is,…”
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Gupta: Execs should do tactical product work before hiring leaders
“So I actually did that work myself until I brought someone on, and that actually gave me the context to then be able to help that person on board, understand the nuances of that business so I could make sure that I could shepherd that and hand that off success…”
Oct 10, 2024 neutral
Gupta: Rubrik Product Team Initially Had Zero Cybersecurity Domain Experience
“We had no one on my team who had ever built or sold a security product before. I was like, this is including me. So I was like, this is pretty bad. If we want to be a security company and we sell a lot to IT, but we wanted to do more in security. It was like, …”
Oct 10, 2024
Gupta: Companies building a second product should dedicate 100% GTM resources early
“I think when you think about building your second big product as early as possible, identify sales, S E marketing resources that are going to be dedicated to figuring out how to get traction with this new product together. And don't make it 20% of their job, m…”
Oct 10, 2024
Gupta: Poor execution stems from solving problems ten steps ahead
“Some people have a really hard time with systems thinking and breaking down a problem into a set of steps that you have to go through. So they get wrapped around the axle, mudging all of the problems together and trying to solve a problem that's actually 10 st…”
Oct 10, 2024
Gupta: Approached LiveRamp CEO whenever rate of learning stagnated
“When I ever felt like in my 11 years at LiveRamp, there were stages in time at the company and with my role where I didn't feel like I was learning, I would actually just go talk to the CEO about that and be like, hey, I don't feel like I'm learning as much an…”
Oct 10, 2024
Gupta: Failing to plan second acts before core growth slowed was a LiveRamp mistake
“I think one mistake I feel like I made at LiveRamp is I didn't think about where was the new growth going to come from and when is the sellable addressable market really going to tap out or slow down and the speed at which we're going to be able to acquire new…”
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Gupta: Startup founders should shield junior employees from executive stress
“I think actually something that the founders did really, really well is keep the sense of fun and not make the work itself become super stressful. So don't like, not transferring probably the stress that they were feeling. I have to imagine they were feeling s…”