Dennis Pilarinos
12 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2024 by Dennis Pilarinos · across every show →
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Mar 21, 2024
Pilarinos: Successful hiring based on 10-hour interviews is miraculous
“You're gonna spend two or three hours with someone, five hours, 10 hours with them in an interview, and be able to come up with a determination. This is something that we're gonna spend 50, 60, 70 hours a week together on, but I've only known you for 10, and w…”
Mar 21, 2024 negative
Dennis Pilarinos: Unblocked is not suited for small, co-located engineering teams
“Unblocked is not a great tool for, Four people who've been working on a product for a year have co-located in the same space. We knew that out of the gate. That's obvious. There isn't a huge hysteresis in terms of content. They haven't developed a lot of syste…”
Mar 21, 2024 positive
Mar 21, 2024 neutral
Mar 21, 2024
Pilarinos: Repeat startup success is statistically improbable due to entropy and luck
“There's a huge amount of, like, luck and serendipity, you know, a decent amount of, like, experience and hard work and so on and so forth. There's a bunch of entropy associated with these companies being successful or not. And so, like, attributing that to ski…”
Mar 21, 2024 negative
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Mar 21, 2024
Every Unblocked user first asks questions they already know to test it
“Every single person who onboards to Unblocked, without fail, the first question they ask is something that they're an expert in. They look to build confidence in the system. It's a hundred percent reproducible. I've never seen an exception outside of it.”
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
Pilarinos: Founders miss a huge opportunity by not testing messaging during demos
“Getting on effectively a form of a sales call when you're doing demos or what have you, if you're not taking those opportunities to iterate on how you talk about or prescribe, describe the product, and like seeing Do people lean in? Reading kind of the room, s…”
Mar 21, 2024 positive
Pilarinos: Winning platform shifts requires unlocking previously impossible utility
“I think if you can apply those technologies in a way that actually provides unique utility, that's the first principle that really matters. To what degree does that technology unlock something you weren't able to do before?”
Mar 21, 2024 negative
Pilarinos: Calling internal big-tech projects 'startups' is disingenuous
“When I was at Microsoft, I remember people had gone and started companies, and I'd be like, oh yeah, I'm doing a startup inside a company, and you're like, that is the most disingenuous thing you can say. I was like, really? If you fail, does your paycheck sto…”