Matt MacInnis
20 statements across 1 episodes · 10 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2024 by Matt MacInnis · across every show →
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Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Founders should ask for relevant experience rather than advice
“If you ask someone for relevant experience, then if they have some first advantage is that like you get to integrate their experience into your context, as opposed to trying to give them a bunch of context so that they can chew the cud for you and give you the…”
Apr 25, 2024
MacInnis: Clear thinkers rely on experience rather than high intelligence
“Clear thinkers don't have to be that smart. They just have to be experienced, or they have to have lots of at-bats on a given topic until they've rounded out their understanding of a system. They might not understand why something is the way it is, but they da…”
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Repeat founders prioritize product and hard driving over peripheral worries
“The third time you start the company, you're like, fuck that. Like that doesn't matter. What matters is I got to get the right product into the hands of the customer immediately. And I've got to test it in market and I've got to focus on sales and win rates. A…”
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Leaders must inspect raw atomic details when anecdotes contradict data
“One of our nine leadership principles at Rippling is that Rippling leaders go and see. And what go and see means is that you don't live in the dashboard. And in particular, like when the anecdotes disagree with the data, you got a problem. You go and see, whic…”
Apr 25, 2024 neutral
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Company scaling is a continuous process of resolving roving bottlenecks
“The roving bottleneck is the thing that's holding you up from achieving the next unlock from two to 20,000 employees. You're currently working on the thing you think is most holding you back from achieving what you want to achieve. And the minute you solve it …”
Apr 25, 2024 negative
Apr 25, 2024 bearish
MacInnis: CEOs who embrace coaching perform worse as executives
“I'm friends with many CEOs who I've, you know, met over the years of having been one and then doing this job, and the folks who are really into the coaching and really into the touchy-feely stuff for themselves on the balance just have not performed as well as…”
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Peter Thiel's first-principles thinking enables him to spot trends early
“There's a guy who's just a stunning first principles thinker, and you just engage him in a conversation on the dynamics of the market or how some technology is going to play out, or you ask him to explain, like he has this concept of the three types of innovat…”
Apr 25, 2024
MacInnis: Too much first-principles thinking causes over-engineering and stalls execution
“Oh my God, yes, you can have too many first principles thinkers because they have a tendency to over-engineer things. Not so much about having too many first principles thinkers as it is having too many people doing first principles thought. There's only so ma…”
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Executives must oversteer toward tighter constraints to fight entropy
“I find that executives need to deliberately oversteer in the direction they want, even to the point of it being a little crazy, but it's because they are the sole tension on the line of tighter constraints, higher bars, harder, you know, harder standards versu…”
Apr 25, 2024 positive
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: High-performing executive teams rely on autonomous blind passes
“Like the hallmark of good executive collaboration is sort of seeing lots of blind passes, where you just toss the ball generally in the direction of the executive who you didn't even look over to see was there, but you kind of know they're there, and they take…”
Apr 25, 2024 neutral
Apr 25, 2024
MacInnis: Managers Fail by Fixating on Outputs Instead of Inspecting Inputs
“As an executive, you're constantly thinking about inputs as a means by which to achieve desired outputs. Where I think a lot of people mess up is that they over rotate on talking about the outputs. Just operationally speaking, no soccer coach ever gets up in f…”
Apr 25, 2024
MacInnis: Top executives actively fight organizational entropy
“The difference between a really effective executive and an executive that's more ho-hum, I think, is that the more effective executive Fights the entropy, like, holds the bar high. Tries to make things happen more quickly, even though it's exhausting.”
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: All teams at Rippling are deliberately kept understaffed
“All of our teams at Rippling are pretty deliberately understaffed and people feel it and they'll complain about resourcing, but like at the end of the day, a team of five that ought to be seven is way better than a team of nine or 10 that ought to be seven.”
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024 positive
MacInnis: Elite founders are energized by work but tortured by fear of failure
“I think they're fucking filled with happiness and enjoyment and energy and also tortured by the fear of failure and by whatever demons drive them or whatever passion drives them. Like there's this awesome Jekyll and Hyde yin yang You know, dynamic to what it's…”